Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, par…

Wait, why couldn't the bird sing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait · To what, where: bird sing

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 833 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, part 44: Inge is freed as a little bird, does good deeds all winter, and turns white» 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	_	8 sing	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sing	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sing	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sing	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sing	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sing	compound
8	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the bird sing					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 · ← Mova's choice

It was too cold to sing, bro

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	4 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sing	mark
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cold	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					cold property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cause it was shy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 shy	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	cop
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					shy property	tree rules

Option 3

Its throat was frozen, that's the thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 throat	nmod:poss
2	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frozen	aux:pass
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 thing	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · passive		Its throat					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	is a	present	that	the thing					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It had no voice, that's the whole vibe

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vibe	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 vibe	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 vibe	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vibe	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 vibe	amod
10	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	no voice					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
2	is a	present	that	the whole vibe					tree rules

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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