Test 6 · ★ · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…

it's giving spooky, what did the workmen think she was?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, workmen, she · What happens: give, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 giving	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 giving	aux
3	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 giving	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 think	obj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 think	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 workmen	det
9	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 think	nsubj
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 giving	parataxis
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 was	nsubj
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 think	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 giving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	give	present · progressive	it	spooky property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	think speech: other	past · do-support	the workmen		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
3	be	past	she		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

a bird that had lost its nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lost	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bird	acl:relcl
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nest	nmod:poss
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		a bird					tree rules

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

a butterfly that came too early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 butterfly	det
2	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 butterfly	acl:relcl
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 early	advmod
6	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a butterfly					early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

a sleepwalking girl from the hospital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	sleepwalking	sleepwalking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girl	compound
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hospital	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hospital	det
6	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girl	nmod

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

Option 4

a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	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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