Test 9 · ★ · Indian Tales, Adventures of an Indian Brave, part 1: the m…

Be real, what was the magic tree actually doing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: real magic tree · What happens: be, do · To what, where: real magic tree

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1191 «Indian Tales, Adventures of an Indian Brave, part 1: the mink escapes the wolves, and a brave's father drowns and returns as a baby» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tree	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 tree	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tree	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doing	nsubj
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 doing	advmod
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			real property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the real magic tree		tree rules
3	do	gerund	the real magic tree		actually property	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

It stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

It grew taller and taller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grew	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 taller	cc
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 taller	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	It					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It carried the son up through the clouds until he saw the whole world spread out beneath him

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	2 carried	compound:prt
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 clouds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 saw	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 world	amod
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
15	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 world	acl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 spread	compound:prt
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry up	past	It	the son	the clouds		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
2	see	past	he	the whole world			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
3	spread out	participle		the whole world not said here		beneath him = he	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath he=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It kept rising higher and higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 rising	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 higher	cc
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 higher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	It						tree rules
2	rise	gerund						high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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