Test 11 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

what made Mount Shu go boom?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mount Shu · What happens: make, go · To what, where: Mount Shu, boom

This is test 11 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Shu	compound
4	Shu	Shu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
6	boom	boom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		Mount Shu					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Mount Shu not said here	boom					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boom=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

Earthquake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Sun got angry at the mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the Sun			the mountain		angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Lightning struck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Lightning	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	participle		Lightning not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It burst out with fire, all of a sudden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 burst	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 fire	case
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burst	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 all	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 burst	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sudden	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sudden	det
10	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst out	past	It					with fire	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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