Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza fl…

bruh the rock is tiny, so how did they all fit on it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rock, they · What happens: be, fit · To what, where: rock

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1022 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza flies over the sea and waits on a tiny rock» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 tiny	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tiny	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fit	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 fit	advmod
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 fit	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fit	aux
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fit	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 fit	advmod
12	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fit	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the rock					tiny property	tree rules
2	fit	past · do-support	they			rock			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on it=Trajectory

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

they sat on the rock one by one

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 rock	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rock	det
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 rock	flat
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	they			the rock		by one	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location

Option 2

some stood on each other's shoulders while the rest hovered above them in the wind all night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 shoulders	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 other	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shoulders	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 other	case
7	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 rest	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
11	hovered	hover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 rest	acl
12	above	above	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hovered	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wind	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hovered	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	some	the rest		each other's shoulders	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
2	hover	participle		the rest not said here		the wind		above shoulders = shoulder	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location

Option 3

they slept in a heap of feathers

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 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 heap	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heap	det
5	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 feathers	case
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heap	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	they			a heap of feathers			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they stood close, arms linked together

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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arms	punct
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
6	linked	link	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 arms	acl
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 linked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	they	arms				close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	link	participle		arms not said here				together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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