Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the s…

Is Borglum just a hill, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Borglum · What happens: be · To what, where: hill

This is test 9 · ★ 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	5 hill	cop
2	Borglum	Borglum	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hill	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 hill	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hill	appos
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Borglum	a hill					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 sand mountain with a convent on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mountain	compound
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 convent	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 convent	det
6	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mountain	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 convent	nmod

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

Option 2

Nah, it's a huge sand mountain, bro, with a convent on top and lime trees growing in the walls

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 mountain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mountain	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mountain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mountain	amod
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	compound
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 convent	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 convent	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 convent	det
14	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	appos
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 top	case
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 convent	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 trees	cc
18	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	compound
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 convent	conj
20	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 trees	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 walls	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 walls	det
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a huge sand mountain				bro vocative	tree rules
2	grow	gerund	lime trees not said here			the walls			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wall=Location

Option 3

A green valley with some sheep, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 valley	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 valley	amod
3	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sheep	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 valley	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sheep	conj

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

Option 4

A sand mountain with a convent on top, and the whole thing is built right over the sea, mate

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mountain	compound
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 convent	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 convent	det
6	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mountain	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 convent	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 built	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 built	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 built	aux:pass
15	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mountain	acl
16	right	right	ADV	_	19 sea	advmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mate	punct
21	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive	a sand mountain with a convent on top not said here	the whole thing		the sea and mate			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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