Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

Was the bridge a dead long one or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bridge

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bridge	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bridge	det
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 one	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bridge					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

Nah, a short plank bridge over the brook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bridge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bridge	amod
5	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bridge	compound
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 brook	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brook	det
9	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bridge	nmod

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

Option 2

Nah, it was a rickety rope bridge that the foals refused to cross at all, mate

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 bridge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bridge	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bridge	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
6	rickety	rickety	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bridge	amod
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bridge	compound
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 refused	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foals	det
11	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 refused	nsubj
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bridge	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cross	mark
14	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 refused	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 cross	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mate	punct
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bridge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a rickety rope bridge and mate		tree rules
2	refuse	past	the foals			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not cross	to-infinitive	the foals not said here		all	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a long, handsome bridge over the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 bridge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bridge	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bridge	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bridge	amod
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bridge	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, a long, handsome stone bridge stretching across the whole wide river valley below the hills

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 bridge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bridge	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bridge	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bridge	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bridge	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bridge	compound
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bridge	acl
10	across	across	ADP	_	15 valley	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 valley	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 valley	amod
13	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 valley	amod
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 valley	compound
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stretching	obl
16	below	below	ADP	_	18 hills	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hills	det
18	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 valley	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	gerund	a long handsome stone bridge not said here			the whole wide river valley below the hills			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across valley=Location

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