Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the s…

Is the story set somewhere cold, innit?

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 story	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the story		tree rules
2	set	past	the story		cold property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	innit	infinitive	the story 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

Nah, it's down south by the sunny coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 south	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 south	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 south	cop
5	down	down	ADV	_	6 south	advmod
6	south	south	ADV	_	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 coast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coast	det
9	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coast	amod
10	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 south	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					by the sunny coast; down, south property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, Northern Jutland, on the wild moor, where the sea roars and the sheep wander over the hills, bro

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 Jutland	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Northern	Northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Jutland	amod
4	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 moor	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 moor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moor	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moor	amod
9	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Jutland	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 roars	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 roars	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 roars	nsubj
14	roars	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 moor	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wander	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sheep	det
17	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wander	nsubj
18	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 roars	conj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 hills	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hills	det
21	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wander	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bro	punct
23	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Jutland	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	present	the sea						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wander	present	the sheep			the hills			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory

Option 3

Northern Jutland, on the wild moor, proper cold, with wind howling across the heather all night long

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jutland	amod
2	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 moor	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 moor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moor	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moor	amod
7	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jutland	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cold	amod
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moor	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wind	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 wind	case
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cold	conj
14	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 wind	acl
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 heather	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 heather	det
17	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 howling	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jutland	appos
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	gerund	wind not said here			the heather			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Northern Jutland, on the wild moor, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jutland	amod
2	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 moor	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 moor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moor	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moor	amod
7	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jutland	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jutland	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jutland	amod

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

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