Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

why'd the fowls even come to the yard, honestly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fowls · What happens: come

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fowls	det
4	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 yard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 yard	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 honestly	punct
11	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	the fowls					to the yard; honestly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to yard=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 · ← Mova's choice

to swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 swim	mark
2	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

for a bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 bath	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bath	det
3	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to find food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 4

for grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 grain	case
2	grain	grain	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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