Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…
Mate, which bird sang about palm-trees?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: sing
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 5 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 7 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 palm | punct |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sang | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Mate and which bird | about palm trees | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about tree=Location |
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
the parrot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 parrot | det |
| 2 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the canary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canary | det |
| 2 | canary | canary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the owl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 owl | det |
| 2 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the lark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lark | det |
| 2 | lark | lark | 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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