Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

What are those dead bugs piled on the snow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dead bugs · What happens: be, pile · To what, where: dead bugs, snow

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 bugs	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bugs	amod
5	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 What	nsubj
6	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bugs	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 snow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piled	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that dead bugs						tree rules
2	pile	participle		that dead bugs not said here		the snow			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on snow=Destination

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 right answer

butterflies and bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bees	cc
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 butterflies	conj

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

Option 2

dead leaves and twigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 twigs	cc
4	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaves	conj

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

Option 3

beetles and flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 flies	cc
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beetles	conj

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

Option 4

dragonflies and gnats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dragonflies	dragonfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 gnats	cc
3	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dragonflies	conj

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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