Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the cas…
And the whole castle just collapsed, boom?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole castle · What happens: collapse · To what, where: boom
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1263 «Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the castle» 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 collapsed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 castle | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 castle | amod |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 collapsed | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 collapsed | advmod |
| 6 | collapsed | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boom | punct |
| 8 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 collapsed | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 collapsed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collapse | past | the whole castle | boom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boom=Patient |
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
Yeah, it sank into the earth slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sank | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sank | nsubj |
| 4 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sank | obl |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 sank | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | it | the earth | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Nah, it stood firm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | it | firm property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it crashed down with a huge noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 crashed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crashed | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crashed | nsubj |
| 4 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 crashed | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 noise | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 noise | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 noise | amod |
| 9 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crashed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash down | past | it | with a huge noise; down property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with noise=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, it just shook a bit and stayed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 shook | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 shook | advmod |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stayed | cc |
| 9 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shook | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | it | a bit | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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