Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…

Do the birds like the plant, or do they bin it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, birds · What happens: do, bin · To what, where: birds, plant

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Do	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 plant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bin	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 bin	cc
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bin	aux
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bin	nsubj
11	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Do	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bin	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	the birds				like the plant	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality
2	bin	present · do-support	birds = bird	plant					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

They bowed down before it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 bowed	compound:prt
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow down	past	They			it			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location

Option 2

They bin it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bin	nsubj
2	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	present	They	it					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They flew off, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	They					mate vocative	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They sang loudly over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	They			it		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location

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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