Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 24: the little man…

Okay, what's the deal with the snow in the avenue?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: deal, avenue

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1437 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 24: the little man tears himself in two, and the merchant finds a magic castle» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	6 deal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 snow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 avenue	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 avenue	det
12	avenue	avenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the deal		the avenue		with the snow	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 right answer

There's no snow, weirdly, just orange trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weirdly	punct
6	weirdly	weirdly	ADV	_	2 's	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trees	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 trees	advmod
9	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 's	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no snow			there		weirdly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

There's tons of snow, just trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 's	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 snow	case
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tons	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trees	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 trees	advmod
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 's	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	tons of snow			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

There's loads of snow, but also orange trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 's	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 snow	case
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trees	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 trees	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 orange	advmod
9	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 's	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	loads of snow			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

There's no snow, weirdly, just orange trees lining a warm path to a big castle

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weirdly	punct
6	weirdly	weirdly	ADV	_	2 's	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trees	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 trees	advmod
9	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 's	nsubj
11	lining	line	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 trees	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 path	det
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 path	amod
14	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lining	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 castle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 castle	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 castle	amod
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no snow			there		weirdly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	line	gerund	orange trees not said here	a warm path				to a big castle	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Destination

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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