Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…

lol what's the one secret she wants him to keep?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, him · What happens: be, want, keep · To what, where: one secret, him

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 914 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the nightingale makes a promise» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 secret	discourse
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 secret	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 secret	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 secret	det
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 secret	nummod
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 secret	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wants	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 secret	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the one secret	tree rules
2	want	present	she	him = he	tree rules
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

That she lives in the palace garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 lives	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garden	compound
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	That			the palace garden			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

Option 2

That the bird he keeps is fake and a machine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 bird	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fake	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bird	acl:relcl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fake	cop
7	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 machine	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 machine	det
10	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	bird	that bird not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	is	present	that bird					fake property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That the artificial bird is the only one who tells him everything that goes on

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 one	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
3	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tells	nsubj
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tells	iobj
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 tells	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 goes	nsubj
14	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 everything	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the only one		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the only one	everything	bird	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic
3	go on	present				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That he has a bird that tells him everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 has	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tells	nsubj
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bird	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tells	iobj
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	That	a bird					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	present	a bird	everything	bird				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic

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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