Test 14 · ★ · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…

What's the best bit of the lot, the big finish?

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

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» 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	5 bit	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 lot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finish	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 finish	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 finish	amod
12	finish	finish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best bit of the lot and the big finish						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

The sky and sea seemed joined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sea	cc
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sky	conj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 seemed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the sky and sea						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	join	participle	the sky and sea not said here						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Heaven and earth seemed to meet as the whole bay roared with joy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 earth	cc
3	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Heaven	conj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 meet	mark
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 roared	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bay	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bay	amod
10	bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 roared	nsubj
11	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meet	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 joy	case
13	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 roared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Heaven and earth		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	meet	to-infinitive	Heaven and earth not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	roar	past	the whole bay	with joy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme

Option 3

The waves rose up and heaven and earth seemed to meet together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 rose	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 seemed	cc
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 earth	cc
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heaven	conj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 meet	mark
11	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	xcomp
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 meet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	the waves		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	heaven and earth		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	meet	to-infinitive	heaven and earth not said here	together property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Heaven and earth seemed to meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 earth	cc
3	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Heaven	conj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 meet	mark
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Heaven and earth						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	meet	to-infinitive	Heaven and earth not said here						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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