Test 10 · ★ · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

What's the mad bird scene on New Year's, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: mad bird scene

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 scene	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scene	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scene	det
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scene	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scene	compound
6	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 Year	case
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Year	compound
9	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 scene	nmod
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Year	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	6 scene	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scene	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the mad bird scene			on New Year		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

Crows screaming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Crows	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	gerund	Crows not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Dogs barking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 barking	nsubj
2	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund	Dogs						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Bells ringing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Bells	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	gerund	Bells not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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