Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the s…

What month is it when we arrive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 802 «Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the singer wakes the king's spirit, the Bird of Song flies out, and we arrive at Borglum» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	obl:unmarked
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 arrive	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 arrive	nsubj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 arrive	advmod
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 arrive	nsubj
7	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					arrive property	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

Midsummer, bro, the bright night that never really gets dark, and the birds are singing all night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Midsummer	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 night	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Midsummer	appos
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 gets	obj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 gets	advmod
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 gets	advmod
11	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 night	acl:relcl
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gets	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 singing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 singing	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birds	det
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 singing	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 singing	aux
18	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Midsummer	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 singing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present		the bright night				dark property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	present · progressive	the birds				night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 2

March, the snow and frost, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snow	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 March	appos
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 frost	cc
6	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snow	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 March	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 March	list

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

June, the bright night, no joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 June	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joke	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 June	appos

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

Option 4

June, the bright night, no joke, when the sun barely sets over the sea and the moor glows

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 June	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joke	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 June	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 June	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 sets	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sets	nsubj
13	barely	barely	ADV	_	14 sets	advmod
14	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 June	acl:relcl
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sets	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 glows	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moor	det
20	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 glows	nsubj
21	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	the sun			the sea		barely property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over sea=Destination
2	glow	present	the moor						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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