Test 6 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

Dude, what was the town's big panic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: big panic

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 panic	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 panic	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 panic	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 panic	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 town	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 panic	amod
9	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	the town's big panic					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

Rats all over the streets and cellars, a proper plague for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	all	all	ADV	_	5 streets	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 streets	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 streets	det
5	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rats	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cellars	cc
7	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 streets	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 plague	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plague	det
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plague	amod
11	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 streets	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 everyone	case
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 plague	nmod

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

Option 2

Mice all over, like a bad fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 over	advmod
3	over	over	ADV	_	1 Mice	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fever	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 fever	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fever	det
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fever	amod
8	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mice	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Rats all over, like a proper plague

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 over	advmod
3	over	over	ADV	_	1 Rats	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plague	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 plague	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plague	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plague	amod
8	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rats	conj

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

Option 4

Rats in every bed and drain, like a big plague from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 bed	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bed	det
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rats	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drain	cc
6	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 plague	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 plague	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plague	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plague	amod
11	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rats	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plague	nmod

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

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