Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

Which bird did the girl point at, like, straight away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: do · To what, where: girl point

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 point	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 point	compound
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 like	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 at	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 away	punct
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which bird	the girl point				away property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=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

"A tiny yellow finch"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 finch	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 finch	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 finch	amod
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 finch	amod
5	finch	finch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 finch	punct

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

Option 2

"A small plain bird perched on the wall outside the kitchen door"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
4	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bird	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perched	obl
10	outside	outside	ADP	_	13 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	compound
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perched	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perch in a quote	participle		a small plain bird not said here		the wall		outside the kitchen door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A little grey bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

"A little grey bird singing in the tall trees by the sea"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 singing	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	nsubj
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 singing	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 singing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund	a little grey bird			the tall trees		by the sea	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

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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