Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

Yo, who got squished first in the duck yard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: squish

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 squished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 squished	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 squished	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 squished	aux:pass
5	squished	squish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 squished	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 yard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yard	det
9	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yard	compound
10	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squished	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 squished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squish	past · passive						in the duck yard; first property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in yard=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

the little singing-bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 singing	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the little singing-bird from the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 singing	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	nmod

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

Option 3

the little brown hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hen	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hen	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hen	amod
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the small singing-bird that sang at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 singing	punct
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bird	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the small singing bird				dawn		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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