Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the s…

Did the sparrows say anything useful?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sparrows · What happens: say · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sparrows	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrows	det
3	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 say	obj
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 anything	amod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the sparrows	anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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

Piep, piep, piep, mate, so the town's buried under snow and the bells are silent now

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piep	Piep	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 piep	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 piep	punct
3	piep	piep	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 silent	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 piep	punct
5	piep	piep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piep	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piep	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 buried	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 buried	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buried	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 town	case
13	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 piep	acl
14	under	under	ADP	_	15 snow	case
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buried	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bells	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bells	det
18	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 snow	conj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 silent	cop
20	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 silent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle		Piep piep and piep and mate not said here		snow and the bells			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under snow=Destination
2	is	present	Piep piep and piep and mate				now	silent property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, they just piep and fly off, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 piep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 piep	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 piep	advmod
5	piep	piep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fly	cc
7	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 piep	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 fly	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 piep	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piep	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	piep	present	they					mate vocative	tree rules
2	fly off	present	they not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Piep piep, they said, the church is gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piep	Piep	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 piep	compound
2	piep	piep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 piep	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Piep piep						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the church					gone property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Piep, piep, piep, mate, so the town's buried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Piep	Piep	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 piep	punct
3	piep	piep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Piep	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 piep	punct
5	piep	piep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piep	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piep	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 buried	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 buried	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buried	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 town	case
13	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Piep	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle		Piep not said here					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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