Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with l…

Mad that the eagle died after losing its feet, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eagle · What happens: die, lose · To what, where: feet

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 died	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eagle	det
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	ccomp
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 losing	mark
7	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 died	advcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 losing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Mad	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the eagle						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	lose	gerund	the eagle not said here	eagle's feet					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Eventuality

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

Yeah, it could not fly anymore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fly	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fly	advmod
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	could	it					anymore property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, without its feet it could no longer lift the heavy gold up off the mountain

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 lift	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feet	punct
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lift	nsubj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lift	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lift	aux
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 longer	advmod
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 lift	advmod
10	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gold	det
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gold	amod
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lift	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	10 lift	compound:prt
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 mountain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountain	det
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift up	could	its feet	the heavy gold		the mountain		long property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme off mountain=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, it was very sad and sorry, but it could never fly the treasure home again

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sad	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sorry	cc
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sad	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fly	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 fly	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fly	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fly	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 fly	advmod
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sad	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 treasure	det
16	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fly	obj
17	home	home	ADV	_	14 fly	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			sad property	tree rules
2	be						tree rules
3	not fly	could	it	the treasure	again	home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it couldn't carry the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 carry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 carry	advmod
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gold	det
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not carry	could	it	the gold					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

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