Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

the cock said the bird's voice was too soft, right? what did he want more of?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cock, voice · What happens: say, be, want · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cock	det
2	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 voice	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 bird	case
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soft	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 soft	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 soft	advmod
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 soft	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 want	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 want	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 want	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 more	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cock			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the bird's voice		soft property	tree rules
3	want	past · do-support	cock	more		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme more=Attribute

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

less noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 noise	amod
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

needs more noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 noise	amod
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present		more noise					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot noise=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

more sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sleep	amod
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a much louder, piercing crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 louder	det
2	much	much	ADV	_	3 louder	advmod
3	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 piercing	punct
5	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 louder	advcl
6	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piercing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pierce	gerund		crow					vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent crow=Instrument

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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