Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

Wait, what tree was the bird singing from, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bird · What happens: wait, be, sing, innit · To what, where: bird

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 bird	nsubj
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 bird	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	8 singing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the bird	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the bird not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	innit	infinitive	you not said here		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

a juniper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 juniper	det
2	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a juniper bush by the old well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bush	det
2	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bush	compound
3	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 old	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 old	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bush	amod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 old	advmod

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

Option 3

a big juniper tree near the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	nmod

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

Option 4

an apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	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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