Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

what did the hills look like before the orchards?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hills · What happens: do, look

This is test 5 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hills	det
4	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 orchards	case
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 orchards	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 orchards	det
9	orchards	orchard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	look	present	the hills					like the orchards	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

thick with pines and oaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 pines	case
3	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 thick	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 oaks	cc
5	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pines	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

covered with thick forests of dark trees that nobody had ever cut down before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 forests	case
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forests	amod
4	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 covered	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forests	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 cut	nsubj:pass
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 cut	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 cut	advmod
12	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 trees	acl:relcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
14	before	before	ADV	_	12 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						with thick forests of dark trees	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with forest=Theme
2	cut down	past · perfect · passive		dark trees			ever	before property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

a wild place of dark woods, rocks and streams where only wolves and owls roamed freely

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 place	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 place	amod
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woods	amod
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 place	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rocks	punct
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 place	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 streams	cc
10	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rocks	conj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 roamed	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 wolves	advmod
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 roamed	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 owls	cc
15	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wolves	conj
16	roamed	roam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rocks	acl
17	freely	freely	ADV	_	16 roamed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roam	participle	wolves and owls					freely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

covered with thick forests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 forests	case
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forests	amod
4	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						with thick forests	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with forest=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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