Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Daisy, part 22: a lark sings to a po…

Wait, so the daisy got kissed by a bird?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bird · What happens: wait, kiss · To what, where: daisy

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 811 «Andersen's Tales, The Daisy, part 22: a lark sings to a poor daisy while the proud flowers sulk» 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	_	7 kissed	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 kissed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 daisy	det
5	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kissed	nsubj:pass
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kissed	aux:pass
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kissed	obl
11	?	?	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	kiss	past · passive	a bird	the daisy					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, with its beak, then it zoomed back up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 beak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beak	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 beak	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beak	nmod:poss
5	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 zoomed	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 zoomed	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 zoomed	nsubj
9	zoomed	zoom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beak	acl:relcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 up	advmod
11	up	up	ADV	_	9 zoomed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zoom	past	beak	its beak not said here			then		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location beak=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, with its beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 beak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beak	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 beak	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beak	nmod:poss
5	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it kissed it with its beak and flew away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kissed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kissed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kissed	nsubj
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kissed	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 beak	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 beak	nmod:poss
8	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kissed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flew	cc
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kissed	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	it	it				with its beak	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with beak=Instrument
2	fly away	past						away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it just sat on the fence for a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 fence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fence	det
8	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 bit	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	it			the fence		for a bit	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fence=Location

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