Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with l…

Honestly, was the cloud just taking the mick, sailing past him like that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cloud · What happens: be, sail

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1704 «Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with lynx claws, cuts the eagle's feet, and wins the Princess» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 taking	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taking	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cloud	det
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 taking	advmod
7	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mick	det
9	mick	mick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sailing	punct
11	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 taking	conj
12	past	past	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sailing	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 sailing	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 taking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cloud					honestly, take property	tree rules
2	sail	gerund	the cloud not said here					past him = he; like that	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past he=Trajectory

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

It drifted slowly past him in the sky and gave him not even one little drop of water

The tree, 18 words

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 drifted	nsubj
2	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 drifted	advmod
4	past	past	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drifted	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drifted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drifted	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 gave	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	16 drop	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 drop	nummod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 drop	amod
16	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drop	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	past	It			the sky		past him = he; slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme past he=Source in sky=Trajectory
2	not give	past		one little drop of water	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

It drifted past with no rain

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 drifted	nsubj
2	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADV	_	2 drifted	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rain	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drifted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	past	It					with no rain; past property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It sailed past without a drop

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 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADV	_	2 sailed	advmod
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 drop	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drop	det
6	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	It					without a drop; past property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It floated by and rained on the people below instead, while he was left parched

The tree, 15 words

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 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	2 floated	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rained	cc
5	rained	rain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 floated	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rained	obl:agent
9	below	below	ADV	_	5 rained	advmod
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 rained	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 left	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	aux:pass
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 floated	conj
16	parched	parch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	float	past	It			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rain	participle			below, instead property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	leave	past · passive		he		tree rules
4	parch	participle	he not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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