Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…

No cap, what did Death turn into when he left?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Death · What happens: turn, leave · To what, where: cap

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 913 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real nightingale saves the dying emperor» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 turn	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
6	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nsubj
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	appos
8	into	into	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 left	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · do-support	Death	no cap					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	leave	past	Death						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 pale grey fog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A cold, white mist that drifted slowly out through the window into the dark night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mist	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mist	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cold	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mist	amod
5	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 drifted	nsubj
7	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mist	acl:relcl
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	9 out	advmod
9	out	out	ADV	_	7 drifted	advmod
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drifted	obl
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 night	amod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drifted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	past	a cold white mist			the window	night	out property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory

Option 3

A thin silver cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A cold, white mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mist	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mist	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cold	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mist	amod
5	mist	mist	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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