Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…
fr, why does the hen pluck herself?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hen · What happens: pluck · To what, where: hen
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pluck | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 pluck | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pluck | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hen | det |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pluck | nsubj |
| 7 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 fr | conj |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 pluck | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 fr | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | present · do-support | the hen | hen | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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 · ✓ the right answer
Cos she thinks it makes her prettier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 thinks | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 makes | obj |
| 7 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | she | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | it | her = she | pretty property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product |
Option 2
Cos she wants to be like the cock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 wants | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cock | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cock | cop |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 cock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cock | det |
| 8 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | she | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | she not said here | like the cock | tree rules |
Option 3
Cos she thinks it makes her shine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 thinks | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shine | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shine | shine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | she | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | it | her shine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material shine=Product |
Option 4
Cos she thinks it looks smart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 thinks | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looks | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looks | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | she | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | present | it | smart property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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