Test 12 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Ya…

Ok real talk, what made the thaw happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thaw · What happens: make, happen · To what, where: Ok real talk

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1217 «Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Yara and the hare calls up a spell» 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	Ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thaw	det
8	thaw	thaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happen	nsubj
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		Ok real talk					tree rules
2	happen	infinitive	the thaw						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Snow and ice melting after the warm wind, so the water flowed again through the valley and the forest

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flowed	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ice	cc
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Snow	conj
4	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ice	acl
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wind	amod
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flowed	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 flowed	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flowed	nsubj
13	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 flowed	advmod
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 valley	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 valley	det
17	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flowed	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 forest	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 valley	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	gerund	ice not said here				after the warm wind		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	flow	past	Snow and ice			the valley and the forest	again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through valley=Location

Option 2

Snow and ice melting in the warm sun, so the river water flowed again over the stones

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flowed	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 melting	cc
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melting	compound
4	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Snow	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sun	amod
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melting	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flowed	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 flowed	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	compound
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flowed	nsubj
14	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 flowed	advmod
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 stones	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stones	det
18	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	participle · passive		Snow and ice melting in the warm sun		the stones	again		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

A warm wind came and the frozen pond cracked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wind	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pond	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
7	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pond	amod
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	conj
9	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pond	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	a warm wind		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	freeze	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	crack	participle		the frozen pond not said here	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Snow and ice melting, so water flowed again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 melting	cc
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melting	compound
4	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Snow	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 water	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 water	advmod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Snow	conj
8	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 water	acl
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 flowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	participle		water not said here			again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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