Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

Real talk, what did the sparrows peck at to look extra?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sparrows · What happens: peck, look · To what, where: Real talk

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 peck	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 peck	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 peck	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sparrows	det
7	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 peck	nsubj
8	peck	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	conj
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	11 look	mark
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 peck	advcl
12	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	past · do-support	the sparrows	Real talk					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	look	to-infinitive	the sparrows not said here					extra property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

a dry twig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 twig	det
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 twig	amod
3	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a crumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crumb	det
2	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a faded leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 leaf	det
2	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 leaf	amod
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a seed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 seed	det
2	seed	seed	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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