Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

what were the cottage roofs made of?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cottage roofs · What happens: be, make · To what, where: cottage roofs

This is test 8 · ★ 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	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roofs	det
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roofs	compound
5	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 what	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 roofs	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 made	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the cottage roofs						tree rules
2	make	participle		the cottage roofs not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

heavy wooden shingles cut from the forest oaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shingles	amod
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shingles	amod
3	shingles	shingle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shingles	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 oaks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oaks	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oaks	compound
8	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle		heavy wooden shingles not said here		the forest oaks			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from oak=Location

Option 2

dried reeds and straw bound tightly together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dried	dried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reeds	amod
2	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bound	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 straw	cc
4	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reeds	conj
5	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	5 bound	advmod
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 bound	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bound	present	dried reeds and straw					tightly, together property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

thatch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thatch	thatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

slate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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