Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

Where did the bells tinkle so loud nobody could talk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bells, nobody · What happens: be, tinkle, talk

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 tinkle	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bells	det
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tinkle	nsubj
5	tinkle	tinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	advcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tinkle	xcomp
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 talk	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	aux
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		where property	tree rules
2	tinkle	present	the bells	loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	could	nobody		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

"In the garden gates"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gates	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	5 gates	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gates	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gates	compound
5	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gates	punct

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

Option 2

"Outside"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Outside	punct
2	Outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Outside	punct

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

Option 3

"In the hall"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hall	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 hall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hall	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In the corridors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 corridors	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corridors	det
3	corridors	corridor	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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