Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

What does the nightingale do that makes the fishermen stop, bro?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: nightingale, fishermen · What happens: do, make, stop

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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	7 makes	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nightingale	det
4	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fishermen	det
9	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stop	nsubj
10	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 makes	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	vocative
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	the nightingale		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present			tree rules
3	stop	present	the fishermen	bro vocative	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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

hides in reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 reeds	case
3	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present				reeds			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in reed=Location

Option 2

flies away fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 flies	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 flies	advmod

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

Option 3

sings so beautifully the fishermen stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	advcl
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 stop	advmod
3	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	5 fishermen	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fishermen	det
5	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the fishermen not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	present	the fishermen						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

sings beautifully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	1 sings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present						beautifully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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