Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…

Real talk, what did the nightingale say the tears were?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nightingale · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Real talk, tears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nightingale	det
7	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tears	det
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	obj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tears	cop
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the nightingale	Real talk					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is a	past		the tears					tree rules

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

Jewels that make a singer happy, the only true reward a bird can ever have

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Jewels	acl:relcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 singer	det
5	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reward	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reward	det
9	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reward	amod
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reward	amod
11	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jewels	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Jewels	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Jewels and the only true reward	a singer				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset singer=Product
2	have	can	a bird	Jewels and the only true reward not said here			ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient

Option 2

Jewels that make a singer happy, which the emperor should give to every bird that sings

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Jewels	acl:relcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 singer	det
5	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 give	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 bird	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 bird	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sings	nsubj
17	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bird	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Jewels	a singer		happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset singer=Product
2	give	should	Jewels		every bird		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to bird=Recipient
3	sing speech: express	present	every bird				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Jewels that make a singer happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Jewels	acl:relcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 singer	det
5	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Jewels	a singer				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset singer=Product

Option 4

Pearls that cheer a player's soul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 cheer	nsubj
3	cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pearls	acl:relcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 player	det
5	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soul	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 player	case
7	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	present	Pearls	a player's soul					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer

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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