Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

bro, what did the parrot say was the sign of high brain power?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: parrot · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parrot	det
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sign	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 parrot	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sign	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sign	det
10	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 power	case
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 power	amod
13	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 power	compound
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sign	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the parrot not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the parrot	the sign	of high brain power	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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