Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…
Okay, what made the robot bird go silent?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: robot bird · What happens: make, go · To what, where: robot bird
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 4 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 6 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | compound |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 9 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the robot bird | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the robot bird not said here | silent property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer
A spring cracked inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spring | det |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cracked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 cracked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | participle | spring | inside property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A spring cracked inside the bird, and the watchmaker could not repair it quickly
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spring | det |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repair | nsubj |
| 3 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 spring | acl |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 bird | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cracked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 repair | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 repair | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 watchmaker | det |
| 10 | watchmaker | watchmaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repair | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 repair | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 repair | advmod |
| 13 | repair | repair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 repair | obj |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 repair | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | participle | a spring not said here | inside the bird | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside bird=Location | ||||
| 2 | not repair | could | a spring | watchmaker | quickly property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 3
A wheel snapped loose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wheel | det |
| 2 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wheel | acl |
| 4 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 3 snapped | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | participle | a wheel not said here | loose property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A pin fell out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pin | det |
| 2 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | past | a pin | out property | vn occur-48.3 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/913-pg27200-part124/t5/