Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

did the duck say she loves everybody, except who?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: duck · What happens: say, love · To what, where: everybody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 duck	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loves	nsubj
6	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 loves	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 who	punct
9	except	except	ADP	_	10 who	case
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 loves	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the duck						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	present	duck	everybody					tree rules

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

none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hawk	det
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the grey barn tomcat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tomcat	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tomcat	amod
3	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tomcat	compound
4	tomcat	tomcat	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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