Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

Bro, where do the kids wait to be picked up by the storks?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storks · What happens: do, wait, pick up · To what, where: kids

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» 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	7 wait	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obj
7	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 picked	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 picked	aux:pass
10	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wait	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 picked	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 storks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 storks	det
14	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 picked	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		the kids		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Eventuality
2	wait	present			Bro vocative	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pick up	to-infinitive · passive	the storks			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

At home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 home	case
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

In a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 tree	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

In the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 pond	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pond	det
3	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

On the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 roof	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roof	det
3	roof	roof	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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