Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…
Did the nightingale sing to the roses, for real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: nightingale sing
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 910 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mother is pecked to death, and her children burn their own nest» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sing | det |
| 3 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | compound |
| 4 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 roses | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roses | det |
| 7 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Did | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 real | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 real | case |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Did | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the nightingale sing | to the roses | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, about the beautiful living for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 living | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 living | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 living | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 living | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 living | amod |
| 6 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 living | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, about the sparrows and the nest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sparrows | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sparrows | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 sparrows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sparrows | det |
| 5 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nest | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nest | det |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sparrows | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, about the beautiful living for ever and the roses' own self, for real, mate
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 living | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 living | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 living | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 living | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 living | amod |
| 6 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 living | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 self | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roses | det |
| 11 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 self | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 roses | case |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 self | amod |
| 14 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mate | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 real | case |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mate | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 real | punct |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, about the sparrow's bleeding wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 wings | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wings | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sparrow | det |
| 5 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bleeding | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 sparrow | case |
| 7 | bleeding | bleeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wings | compound |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleed | the sparrow | nom bleeding «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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