Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

What kinda language could Helga speak with birds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kinda language · What happens: speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 speak	obj
2	kinda	kinda	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 language	amod
3	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 speak	nsubj
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 birds	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 speak	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	kinda language					with birds	tree rules

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

Old Danish, from her mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Danish	amod
2	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Latin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Some Arabic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 Arabic	det
2	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bird language, from the swan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 language	compound
2	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 swan	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 swan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swan	det
6	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 language	conj

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

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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