Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…

were the swans the ones flying in a triangle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ones · What happens: be, fly · To what, where: swans, triangle

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» 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	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swans	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swans	det
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swans	conj
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ones	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 triangle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 triangle	det
9	triangle	triangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flying	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 swans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the swans and the ones					tree rules
2	fly	gerund	the ones not said here			a triangle			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in triangle=Location

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

yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

no, the plovers did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plovers	det
4	plovers	plover	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the plovers						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yes, the storks did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storks	det
4	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the storks	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no, that was the cranes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cranes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 cranes	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cranes	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cranes	det
6	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	the cranes					tree rules

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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