Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of…

no cap, what was the popinjay made of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be, make · To what, where: popinjay

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 307 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of Danish towns and falls asleep» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 popinjay	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 popinjay	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 popinjay	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 popinjay	det
7	popinjay	popinjay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	appos
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 popinjay	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 made	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	the popinjay					tree rules
2	make	participle		the popinjay not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

carved cedar wood with paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wood	amod
2	cedar	cedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wood	compound
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 paint	case
5	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wood	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

painted pine with brass nails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pine	amod
2	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 nails	case
4	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nails	compound
5	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pine	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wood	wood	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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