Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga i…

ngl, what was the bird in the mum's heart trying to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, heart · What happens: be, try, do · To what, where: bird, heart

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 894 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga is freed and finds her mother» 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	_	6 bird	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 bird	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 heart	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mum	det
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heart	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mum	case
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nmod
12	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 heart	acl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trying	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	the bird	the mum's heart	tree rules
2	try	gerund	the mum's heart not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mum's heart not said here			vn act-114-1 «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

fly away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fly to its dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 dad	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	imperative	you not said here					to its dad result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dad=Result

Option 3

sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

run to its nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 nest	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nest	nmod:poss
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			its nest			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination

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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