Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wis…

did the birds all come from the same place?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: do, come · To what, where: same place

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 938 «Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a crystal castle fears death and teaches his children about the philosopher's stone» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	the birds			the same place		all property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, from all over the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 world	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 world	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 world	case
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 world	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, from one place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 place	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 place	nummod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, from far-off islands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 islands	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 islands	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 islands	case
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 off	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 far	punct
6	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 islands	compound
7	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, from the same forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 forest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forest	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forest	amod
6	forest	forest	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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