Test 8 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

Sus, what happens to china people if they get moved?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: happen, move · To what, where: people

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	compound
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happens	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 moved	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 moved	nsubj:pass
10	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 moved	aux:pass
11	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happens	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Sus					to china people	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		people					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer

Their joints stiffen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 joints	nmod:poss
2	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stiffen	nsubj
3	stiffen	stiffen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stiffen	present	Their joints						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They lose their voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	They	their voice					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality

Option 3

Their paint fades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 paint	nmod:poss
2	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fades	nsubj
3	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	Their paint						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Their joints stiffen and they cannot move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 joints	nmod:poss
2	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stiffen	nsubj
3	stiffen	stiffen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 move	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 move	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 move	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 move	advmod
8	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stiffen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stiffen	present	Their joints						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not move	can	joints = joint						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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