Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…

Yo, who was top dog in the nest before the fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: top dog, nest

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 dog	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dog	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dog	cop
5	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 nest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nest	det
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		top dog		the nest	before the fire		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 · ✓ the right answer

The one who stayed behind in the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nest	det
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the one			the nest		behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location

Option 2

The bossiest one who puffed up in the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	bossiest	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 puffed	nsubj
5	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 puffed	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 nest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nest	det
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	puff up	past	the bossiest one			the nest			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3

The one who flew away first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	the one					away, first property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The smallest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smallest	det
2	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	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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