Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's…

Did the storm, like, burn the forests or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: burn · To what, where: forests

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storm	det
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 burn	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forests	det
9	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burn	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 forests	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · do-support		the forests					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=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

Nah, they just bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bent	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 bent	advmod
5	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	they						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, it knocked them flat and then drowned the valley below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	obj
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knocked	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drowned	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 drowned	advmod
9	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 valley	det
11	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drowned	obj
12	below	below	ADV	_	9 drowned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	it	them = they				flat property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	drown	past		the valley			then	below property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, burnt them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 burnt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burnt	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 burnt	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt up	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they burned the whole forest down to ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forest	amod
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	4 burned	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ash	mark
10	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	they	the whole forest				down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Theme

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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