Test 4 · ★ · pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills…

Her hair rang like metal when it fell, that's sus, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hair, that · What happens: ring, fall, be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1708 «pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride» 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rang	nsubj
3	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 metal	case
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rang	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fell	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rang	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sus	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 sus	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sus	cop
12	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rang	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sus	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	3 rang	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 rang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ring	past	Her hair	like metal	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	hair		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	that	suspect property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, every hair went clink like pure metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hair	det
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	clink	clink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 metal	case
8	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 metal	amod
9	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	every hair	clink				like pure metal	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clink=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, every single hair went clink like pure metal when it hit the floor

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hair	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	clink	clink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 metal	case
9	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 metal	amod
10	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clink	nmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 hit	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hit	nsubj
13	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 floor	det
15	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	every single hair	clink				like pure metal	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clink=Theme
2	hit	past	hair	the floor					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Co-Theme

Option 3

Yeah, it chimed like a bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chimed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chimed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chimed	nsubj
4	chimed	chime	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 bell	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bell	det
7	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chimed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chime	past	it					like a bell	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it sounded like soft silk brushing the stone, nothing weird at all

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sounded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sounded	nsubj
4	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 silk	case
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 silk	amod
7	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounded	obl
8	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 silk	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brushing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nothing	punct
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 silk	conj
13	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	amod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 weird	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	it					like soft silk	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	brush	gerund	soft silk not said here	the stone					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme

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