Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

Gotta ask, what did the reapers' scythes do in the fields?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gotta, scythes · What happens: ask, do · To what, where: fields · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» 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 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reapers	det
7	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scythes	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 reapers	case
9	scythes	scythe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 fields	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fields	det
13	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Gotta		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	the reapers's scythes	the fields	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

glittered in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 sun	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 glittered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	participle				the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location

Option 2

shone in the moonlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moonlight	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moonlight	det
4	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	participle				the moonlight			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location

Option 3

glittered in the sunshine above the grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 sunshine	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sunshine	det
4	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 glittered	obl
5	above	above	ADP	_	7 grain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grain	det
7	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sunshine	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	participle				the sunshine above the grain			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location

Option 4

glittered brightly as the reapers swung them down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	1 glittered	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 swung	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reapers	det
5	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swung	nsubj
6	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 glittered	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swung	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 swung	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	past						brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swing down	past	the reapers	them = they					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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