Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

what's the deal with the fiery rivers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 rivers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rivers	det
7	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rivers	amod
8	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deal	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the fiery rivers						tree rules

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 burn up the forest

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 burn	nsubj
2	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 burn	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn up	present	they	the forest					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Theme

Option 2

gnomes dig deep canals below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	nsubj
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 canals	amod
4	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	obj
5	below	below	ADV	_	2 dig	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	gnomes	deep canals				below property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent canal=Theme

Option 3

fire rivers under the hills heat the rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rivers	compound
2	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heat	nsubj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 hills	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hills	det
5	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rivers	nmod
6	heat	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present	fire rivers under the hills	the rock					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rock=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gnomes build barriers to hold them back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hold	mark
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 build	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	gnomes	barriers					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrier=Product
2	hold back	to-infinitive	gnomes not said here	barriers = barrier					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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