Test 5 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi…

What did the big wave do, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: big wave do · What happens: like

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1305 «Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances with a sea lady and forgets his mother on the shore» 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	8 like	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 do	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	amod
5	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	compound
6	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past · do-support	the big wave do						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

flooded the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fields	det
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 flooded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	past		the fields					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent field=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

burst on the strand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 strand	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 strand	det
4	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burst	nmod

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

Option 3

hit the rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rocks	det
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	the rocks					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Co-Theme

Option 4

broke on the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 beach	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beach	det
4	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past				the beach			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location

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