Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…

Lowkey, what did the courtiers want when the duet fell apart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, courtiers, duet · What happens: do, want, fall apart

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 courtiers	det
6	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 fell	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 duet	det
10	duet	duet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	ccomp
12	apart	apart	ADV	_	11 fell	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lowkey		tree rules
2	want	present	the courtiers		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fall apart	past	the duet	apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

To hear it sing again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hear	mark
2	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sing	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hear	obj
4	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here				again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sleep	mark
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To stop it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To keep the bird singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the bird					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the bird not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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