Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

so who was perched on the oak gossiping, like proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oak · What happens: perch, gossip · To what, where: oak

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 perched	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 perched	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perched	aux:pass
4	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 oak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oak	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perched	obl
8	gossiping	gossip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 oak	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 proper	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 proper	case
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gossiping	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 perched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perch	past · passive				the oak			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on oak=Destination
2	gossip speech: other	gerund	the oak not said here						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

ravens and kites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 kites	cc
3	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ravens	conj

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

Option 2

owls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

crows and rooks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 rooks	cc
3	rooks	rook	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 crows	conj

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

Option 4

magpies chattering about the weather and the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 magpies	acl
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 weather	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weather	det
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chattering	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 farm	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farm	det
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weather	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chatter	gerund	magpies not said here					about the weather and the farm	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about weather=Topic

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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