Test 9 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleto…

Sus, what does that special straw do in summer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: do · To what, where: special straw

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1722 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleton gathers strange companions for his ship» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 straw	det
6	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 straw	amod
7	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Sus	that special straw					tree rules
2	do	present	Sus not said here				summer		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Makes the sun go dark and the whole land cover in thick snow and ice

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Makes	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Makes	xcomp
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cover	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cover	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cover	amod
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cover	compound
10	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 snow	case
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 snow	amod
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cover	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ice	cc
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		the sun					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the sun not said here					dark property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Makes hail fall and crops die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hail	nsubj
2	hail	hail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hail	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 die	cc
5	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	nsubj
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hail	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	hail	present	Makes	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	fall	infinitive	Makes not said here	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present	crops	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Makes snow fall and folk freeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snow	compound
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	nsubj
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 freeze	cc
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 freeze	compound
6	freeze	freeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	infinitive	Makes snow						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Makes snow fall and folk freeze and the rivers turn solid for months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	nsubj
3	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 freeze	cc
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 freeze	compound
6	freeze	freeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turn	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rivers	det
9	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turn	nsubj
10	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	conj
11	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turn	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 months	case
13	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	infinitive	Makes						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	present	the rivers				month	solid property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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