Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

Mate, what was the bird's song all about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: song

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 song	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 song	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 song	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 song	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bird	case
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 about	advmod
10	about	about	ADV	_	8 song	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the bird's song	the bird's song				about property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

dew-drops glitter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 dew	punct
3	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 glitter	nsubj
4	glitter	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	present	dew drops						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

morning light glows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	compound
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glows	nsubj
3	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	morning light						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the sun shines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shines	nsubj
3	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	the sun						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

dew-drops glitter on the green grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 dew	punct
3	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 glitter	nsubj
4	glitter	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 grass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grass	amod
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glitter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	present	dew drops			the green grass			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Location

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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