Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

Did the birds have to shout a message or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: have, shout · To what, where: message

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 birds	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shout	mark
6	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 message	det
8	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shout	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 message	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the birds						tree rules
2	shout speech: express	to-infinitive	the birds not said here	a message					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Topic

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

The eagle flew it over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	3 flew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly over	past	the eagle	it					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The nightingale carried it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nightingale	det
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the nightingale	it					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

They whispered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whispered	nsubj
2	whispered	whisper	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	whisper speech: assert	past	They						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The stork carried a note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 note	det
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the stork	a note					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=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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