Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

So what's the saying about birds?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: saying

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 385 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets catch a Stork among Cranes, and his pleas fail.» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 saying	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 saying	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 saying	det
5	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saying	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the saying				about birds	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

Birds of a kind sing together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 sing	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sing	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sing	amod
5	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Birds	nmod
6	together	together	ADV	_	1 Birds	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Birds sing sweetly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sing	nsubj
2	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	2 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	Birds					sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Birds of a feather flock together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 flock	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flock	det
4	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flock	compound
5	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Birds	nmod
6	together	together	ADV	_	1 Birds	advmod

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

Option 4

Like birds fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 birds	case
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	nsubj
3	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	birds						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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