Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

Innit, who actually bit the bird's head?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: bite · To what, where: head

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 bit	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 bit	advmod
5	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bird	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	Innit	the bird's head				actually property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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 Portuguese duck from the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
2	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duck	amod
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 pond	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pond	det
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duck	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Portuguese duck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
2	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duck	amod
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Chinese duck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the old goose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goose	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goose	amod
3	goose	goose	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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