Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies…

wait, who told the story to the narrator?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, tell · To what, where: story, narrator · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 807 «Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies the storm and is burnt black» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 narrator	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 narrator	det
9	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past		the story	the narrator				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to narrator=Recipient

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

The old sparrows who sat on the church roof every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrows	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sparrows	amod
3	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sparrows	acl:relcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 roof	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roof	compound
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the old sparrows			the church roof	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sparrows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrows	det
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The blackbirds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blackbirds	det
2	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

An owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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