Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

Lmao, why's the lady not chuffed about the lark?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, not chuff · To what, where: lady

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Lmao	Lmao	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lady	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lady	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lady	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lmao	appos
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 chuffed	advmod
8	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lady	acl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 lark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lark	det
11	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chuffed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lmao	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the lady					tree rules
2	not chuff	participle		the lady not said here				about the lark	tree rules

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

she says it sings like a common field-bird that eats worms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sings	nsubj
4	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	like	like	ADP	_	10 bird	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 field	punct
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sings	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 eats	nsubj
12	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bird	acl:relcl
13	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sing speech: express	present	it		like a common field bird	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	present	a common field bird	worms		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient

Option 2

it sings too softly

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 sings	nsubj
2	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 softly	advmod
4	softly	softly	ADV	_	2 sings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	it					softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it is merely a field bird

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	6 bird	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
3	merely	merely	ADV	_	6 bird	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	compound
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a field bird				merely property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she calls it a common field-bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calls	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 field	punct
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	she	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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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