Test 10 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

Bruv, how did Kotei's lot not get lost in the fog this time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not lose · To what, where: Bruv, fog

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1349 «Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage, part 9: Kotei beats the fog and crosses the river in boats made after a spider's leaf» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lost	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux
5	Kotei	Kotei	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lot	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Kotei	case
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 lost	advmod
9	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 lost	aux:pass
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 fog	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fog	det
13	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lose	past · passive · do-support		Bruv		the fog	time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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

their horses found the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horses	nmod:poss
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	their horses	the road					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic

Option 2

the stars showed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	the stars	them = they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 3

the map helped them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 map	det
2	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helped	nsubj
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	the map	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the shinansha kept them on track

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shinansha	det
2	shinansha	shinansha	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 track	case
6	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the shinansha	them = they		track			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on track=Location

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