Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…

was the canary singing about dark-green trees?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: canary · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: canary

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 canary	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 canary	det
3	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 canary	acl
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 trees	case
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 green	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 singing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 canary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the canary					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the canary not said here					about green 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

yeah, about the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sun	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sun	punct
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

no, just singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 singing	advmod
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, about his homeland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 homeland	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 homeland	punct
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 homeland	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 homeland	nmod:poss
5	homeland	homeland	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

no, about his old cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cage	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cage	punct
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 cage	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cage	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cage	amod
6	cage	cage	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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