Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

Gotta ask, what happens when the storks flap too slow at the review?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gotta, storks · What happens: ask, happen, flap · To what, where: slow

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Gotta	Gotta	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happens	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happens	nsubj
5	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	conj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 flap	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storks	det
8	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flap	nsubj
9	flap	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happens	advcl
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 slow	advmod
11	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flap	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 review	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 review	det
14	review	review	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slow	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Gotta		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	present			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flap	present	the storks	slow	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slow=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

He pokes them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pokes	nsubj
2	pokes	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pokes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	present	He	them = they					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

The general spears them with a tall pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 general	det
2	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spears	nsubj
3	spears	spear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spears	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 pole	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pole	det
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pole	amod
8	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spear	present	the general	them = they				with a tall pole	vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with pole=Instrument

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The general pokes them with his beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 general	det
2	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pokes	nsubj
3	pokes	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pokes	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 beak	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 beak	nmod:poss
7	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pokes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	present	the general	them = they				with general's beak	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent they=Theme with beak=Instrument

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They get stabbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	They						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stab	participle	They not said here						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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