Test 10 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

why'd the ambassadors even need magic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ambassadors · What happens: need · To what, where: magic

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ambassadors	det
4	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	advcl:relcl
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the ambassadors	magic					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot magic=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 · ← Mova's choice

Walking would take so long that the Empress and everyone else would already be dead

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 take	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 dead	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Empress	det
8	Empress	Empress	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 dead	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 everyone	cc
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 Empress	conj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 everyone	advmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	aux
13	already	already	ADV	_	15 dead	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 dead	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	Walking					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	the Empress					dead property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Walking would take so long they'd be dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 dead	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dead	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	Walking						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	they					dead, long property	tree rules

Option 3

The roads were blocked by old rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roads	det
2	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blocked	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blocked	aux:pass
4	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 rocks	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rocks	amod
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past · passive	old rocks	the roads					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

Option 4

Walking would take so long that they would all be dead long before reaching the Sun

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 take	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 dead	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dead	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	aux
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 dead	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 long	advcl
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 take	advmod
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 reaching	mark
14	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 take	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sun	det
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 reaching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	would	Walking		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	they		all, dead property	tree rules
3	reach	gerund	Walking not said here	the Sun		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sun=Theme

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