Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

What did the ribbon on the fake bird brag about, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: ribbon, fake bird brag

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ribbon	det
4	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 brag	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brag	det
7	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brag	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brag	compound
9	brag	brag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	about	about	ADV	_	12 mate	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 about	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brag	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the ribbon		the fake bird brag mate			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribbon=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 · ← Mova's choice

"Japan wins"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wins	punct
2	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wins	nsubj
3	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wins	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win in a quote	present	Japan						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

China's bird is poor next to Japan's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 China	case
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poor	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	cop
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	next	next	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Japan	case
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 poor	obl
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Japan	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	China's bird		Japan			next, poor property	tree rules

Option 3

"China is poor"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct
2	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 poor	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	China					poor property	tree rules

Option 4

"China's bird is poor, Japan's is rich"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 poor	punct
2	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bird	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 China	case
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poor	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 poor	cop
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rich	punct
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rich	nsubj
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Japan	case
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 rich	cop
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poor	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 rich	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	China's bird					poor property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	Japan					rich property	tree rules

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