Test 9 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

Peak, what did the tame pigeons do round the tower?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peak, tame pigeons · What happens: do

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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	Peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pigeons	det
6	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pigeons	amod
7	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	round	round	ADP	_	11 tower	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tower	det
11	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Peak						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the tame pigeons					round the tower	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

swoop down to pick up crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swoop	swoop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 swoop	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pick	mark
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 swoop	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pick	compound:prt
6	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop down	imperative	you not said here					down property	tree rules
2	pick up	to-infinitive	you not said here	crumbs					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Topic

Option 2

flutter about the bell-tower all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flutter	flutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	6 tower	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tower	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tower	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bell	punct
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 flutter	nmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tower	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

flutter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

gather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gather	gather	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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