Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…
lowkey, which birds yell "let it go farther"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: yell, let, go · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 yell | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 birds | det |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 yell | nsubj |
| 5 | yell | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 yell | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 yell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | present | which birds | lowkey vocative | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | which birds not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | far 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
Doves and the owls too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 owls | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 owls | det |
| 4 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Doves | conj |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Doves | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Bats, hens and cocks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hens | punct |
| 3 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bats | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cocks | cc |
| 5 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bats | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Pigeons and the ducks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ducks | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ducks | det |
| 4 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pigeons | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The bats, the owls, the hens and all the cocks in the yard
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bats | det |
| 2 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 owls | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 owls | det |
| 5 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bats | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hens | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hens | det |
| 8 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bats | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cocks | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 cocks | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cocks | det |
| 12 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bats | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 yard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 yard | det |
| 15 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cocks | nmod |
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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