Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

Yo, what did the sparrows do once the storks left?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sparrows · What happens: do, leave · To what, where: storks

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sparrows	det
6	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 storks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 storks	det
10	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 storks	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the sparrows		once the storks	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	participle		the storks not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Moved in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	1 Moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move in	participle							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Took over the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Took	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	1 Took	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nest	det
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take over	participle		the nest					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme

Option 3

Ate the eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eggs	det
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		the eggs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Took the old roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roof	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roof	amod
4	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		the old roof					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Theme

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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