Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

Okay, so who was the fam that said "peep" and did the foot scrape thing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: be, say, do, scrape · To what, where: fam, peep, foot, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	7 fam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fam	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 fam	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fam	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fam	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fam	det
7	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fam	acl:relcl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 peep	punct
11	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 peep	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foot	det
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	obj
17	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 scrape	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the fam	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the fam	peep	tree rules
3	do	past	the fam not said here	the foot	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Eventuality
4	scrape	infinitive		thing	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

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

the robins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robins	det
2	robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the sparrows who lived under the eaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrows	det
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sparrows	acl:relcl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 eaves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eaves	det
7	eaves	eave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the sparrows			the eaves			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under eave=Location

Option 3

the little grey sparrows from the burned house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sparrows	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sparrows	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sparrows	amod
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sparrows	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the sparrows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrows	det
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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