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

What's the Northern Light doing in the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Northern Light · What happens: be, do · To what, where: story

This is test 13 · ★ 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	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Light	det
4	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Light	amod
5	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Light	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Northern Light						tree rules
2	do	gerund	the Northern Light not said here			the story			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Glancing, like the king's vanishing face, flickering over the north sky all night, bro, so cool

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glancing	glance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 cool	csubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 face	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	8 face	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 face	amod
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Glancing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flickering	punct
10	flickering	flicker	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Glancing	conj
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 sky	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sky	det
13	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sky	amod
14	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flickering	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flickering	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bro	punct
18	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 night	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cool	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 cool	advmod
21	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	where	when	other	roles by
1	glance	gerund			like the king's vanishing face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	vanish	gerund				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flicker	gerund	the north sky	night		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sky=Location

Option 2

Just like a torch in the dark, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 torch	advmod
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 torch	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 torch	det
4	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 torch	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 torch	conj

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

Option 3

Super bright, like the king's face when he vanished into the grave, fam, and totally gone now

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Super	super	ADV	_	2 bright	advmod
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gone	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 face	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 face	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bright	conj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 vanished	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 vanished	nsubj
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 face	acl:relcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 grave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grave	det
14	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vanished	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fam	punct
16	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grave	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gone	cc
19	totally	totally	ADV	_	20 gone	advmod
20	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	king			the grave and fam			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	participle					now	totally property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Glancing, like the king's vanishing face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glancing	glance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 vanishing	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 vanishing	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vanishing	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	vanishing	vanish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Glancing	conj
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vanishing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glance	gerund							vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	vanish	gerund		face					tree rules

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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