Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

Which bird took a solo trip to Copenhagen, like a total main character?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: take · To what, where: solo trip, Copenhagen

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trip	det
5	solo	solo	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trip	amod
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Copenhagen	case
8	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trip	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 character	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	14 character	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 character	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 character	amod
13	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 character	amod
14	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	which bird	a solo trip	Copenhagen				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trip=Theme to copenhagen=Destination

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 youngest chick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chick	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 chick	amod
3	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the pigeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the eldest sparrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 sparrow	amod
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the young one

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	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	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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