Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes ar…

bro, why was the swallow moaning about the prize?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, swallow · What happens: be, moan · To what, where: swallow

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 956 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes are argued over, then poor Karen gets red shoes and is taken away» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallow	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 bro	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swallow	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swallow	det
6	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 swallow	acl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 prize	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prize	det
10	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moaning	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 swallow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the swallow					tree rules
2	moan	gerund	the swallow not said here					about the prize	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about prize=Topic

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

cos she sang too loud all summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sang	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 summer	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	cos				summer	loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

cos she flies off when it's hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flies	nsubj
3	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 flies	compound:prt
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hot	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hot	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hot	cop
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flies	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	present	cos						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					hot property	tree rules

Option 3

cos she flies off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flies	nsubj
3	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 flies	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	present	cos						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos she flies off abroad when winter comes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flies	nsubj
3	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 flies	compound:prt
5	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 flies	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 comes	advmod
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flies	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	present	cos					abroad property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	winter						vn escape-51.1-1 «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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