Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…

Be real, which bird did the music-master say was better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: be, do, say · To what, where: music master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 say	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 real	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 master	det
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 master	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 music	punct
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 better	cop
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 say	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			real property	tree rules
2	do	past	which bird	the music master		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past			good property	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

The bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The robot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robot	det
2	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The mechanical singer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 singer	det
2	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 singer	amod
3	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The artificial bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	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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