Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

ngl, what's stinkin' up the nest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: stinkin

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stinkin	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 stinkin	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stinkin	cop
5	stinkin	stinkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 stinkin	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	9 nest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nest	det
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stinkin	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		stinkin				up the nest	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

rotting lambs, chamois, and many dead birds too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lambs	amod
2	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chamois	punct
4	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lambs	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 birds	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 birds	cc
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lambs	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	9 birds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	gerund							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

old dead sheep and hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hay	cc
5	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sheep	conj

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

Option 3

rotting fish and bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bread	cc
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	gerund							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

rotting lambs and birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lambs	amod
2	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 birds	cc
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lambs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	gerund							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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