Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince fre…

Okay but why did the stork have to stand on one leg, is that like a thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stork, that · What happens: have, stand, be · To what, where: one leg

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 694 «Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince frees a prisoner, meets three grateful creatures, and is set a grain-sorting task» 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 have	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 have	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stork	det
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Okay	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stand	mark
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 leg	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 leg	nummod
12	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stand	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	cop
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 thing	nsubj
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 thing	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thing	det
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the stork			tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive	the stork not said here	one leg		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
3	is	present	that		like a Okay thing	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

It was just how storks stand, and the text does not explain why the bird behaves that way

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stand	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 stand	advmod
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stand	advmod
5	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stand	nsubj
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 explain	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 explain	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 text	det
10	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 explain	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 explain	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 explain	advmod
13	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stand	conj
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 behaves	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 behaves	nsubj
17	behaves	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 explain	ccomp
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 behaves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		stand property	tree rules
2	not explain speech: assert	present · do-support	the text			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	behave	present	the bird	that way		tree rules

Option 2

It was a custom of storks in that land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 custom	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 custom	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 custom	det
4	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 storks	case
6	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 custom	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 storks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a custom				of storks in that land	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was just how storks stand, the text only says so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 says	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	11 says	advmod
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stand	advmod
5	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stand	nsubj
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 text	det
9	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 says	advmod
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	so	so	ADV	_	11 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	storks						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	It					say property	tree rules

Option 4

It stood on one leg because storks in that country were believed to sleep this way at dusk

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 leg	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 leg	nummod
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 believed	mark
7	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 believed	nsubj:pass
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 storks	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 believed	aux:pass
12	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sleep	mark
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 believed	xcomp
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleep	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 dusk	case
18	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	It		one leg		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
2	believe	past · passive		storks in that country			tree rules
3	sleep	to-infinitive		this way		dusk	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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