Test 6 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

ngl the second earthquake sounds nuts, what happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, nuts · What happens: sound, happen · To what, where: nuts

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 earthquake	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 earthquake	amod
4	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	nsubj
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sounds	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happened	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happened	nsubj
9	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nuts	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	ngl	nuts					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme
2	happen	past	nuts						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

the hay flew everywhere round him and the whole barn shook hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hay	det
2	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 flew	advmod
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shook	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 barn	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 barn	amod
10	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shook	nsubj
11	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shook	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the hay					round him = he; everywhere property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=Trajectory
2	shake	past	the whole barn					hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the hay flew everywhere round him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hay	det
2	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 flew	advmod
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the hay					round him = he; everywhere property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=Trajectory

Option 3

it scattered hay all over the place

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 scattered	nsubj
2	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scattered	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	2 scattered	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	it	hay		the place		all property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hay=Theme over place=Destination

Option 4

the straw flew all round him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 straw	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the straw					round him = he; all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=Trajectory

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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