Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

vibes check, what were the swallows crying?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vibes, swallows · What happens: check, cry

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» 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	vibes	vibe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 check	nsubj
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crying	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 crying	obj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crying	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 swallows	det
7	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crying	nsubj
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 check	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present	vibes						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	the swallows						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

"Twit, twit, twit, my mate is coming"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
2	Twit	twit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 twit	punct
4	twit	twit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Twit	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 twit	punct
6	twit	twit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Twit	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mate	nmod:poss
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 coming	aux
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · progressive	Twit and twit and twit						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Chirp, chirp, my nest is near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chirp	chirp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 near	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 chirp	punct
3	chirp	chirp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chirp	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nest	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chirp	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 near	cop
8	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Chirp and chirp and my nest					near property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cheep, cheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheep	cheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cheep	punct
3	cheep	cheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cheep	conj

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

Option 4

Cheep, cheep, the summer is here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheep	cheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cheep	punct
3	cheep	cheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cheep	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 summer	det
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cheep	conj
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	Cheep and cheep and the summer			here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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