Test 15 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

what made Szabo fall asleep up the tree, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Szabo · What happens: make, fall · To what, where: Szabo, tree

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Szabo	Szabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		Szabo					tree rules
2	fall	infinitive	Szabo not said here			the tree and fam		asleep property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up tree=Initial_Location

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

a drowsiness in the warm air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drowsiness	det
2	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 air	amod
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drowsiness	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a drowsiness he couldn't fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drowsiness	det
2	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fight	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fight	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fight	advmod
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drowsiness	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fight	could	he	a drowsiness not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drowsiness=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a strong magic drowsiness that came over him under the apple tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drowsiness	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drowsiness	amod
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drowsiness	compound
4	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drowsiness	acl:relcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
9	under	under	ADP	_	12 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
11	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a strong magic drowsiness			the apple tree		over him = he	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location

Option 4

a heavy drowsiness that he could not fight off no matter what

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drowsiness	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drowsiness	amod
3	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fight	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fight	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fight	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fight	advmod
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drowsiness	acl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 fight	compound:prt
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 matter	det
11	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fight	obj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fight off	could	he	no matter					tree rules

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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