Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

bestie, what did stork-papa say the ending was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stork papa · What happens: say, be · To what, where: ending · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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	bestie	bestie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bestie	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
5	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 papa	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 stork	punct
7	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ending	det
10	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	stork papa	the ending				bestie vocative	tree rules
2	be	past							vn exist-47.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

a sad story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a good tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tale	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tale	amod
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 happy	det
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a new ending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ending	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ending	amod
3	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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