Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…

Fr, why did the fisherman feel something was missing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, something · What happens: feel, be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feel	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 feel	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feel	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fisherman	det
6	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	nsubj
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 missing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 missing	cop
10	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feel	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	Fr						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	something					missing 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

He missed something true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 missed	nsubj
2	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 missed	obj
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	He	something					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He could not name it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 name	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 name	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 name	advmod
4	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 name	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not name	could	He	it					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Its beat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 beat	nmod:poss
2	beat	beat	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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