Test 7 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

Bare nuts, how high did they fly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bare nuts · What happens: fly

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird» 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nuts	amod
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fly	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fly	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fly	advmod
5	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fly	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fly	aux
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fly	nsubj
8	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · do-support	Bare nuts					high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Over the valley's edge, far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADP	_	5 edge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 valley	det
3	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 edge	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 valley	case
5	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 far	punct
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 edge	advmod

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

Option 2

Higher than any bird had ever flown across the wide and distant sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 flown	mark
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flown	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flown	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 flown	advmod
7	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Higher	advcl
8	across	across	ADP	_	13 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
10	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sea	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 distant	cc
12	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wide	conj
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · perfect · passive		any bird		the wide sea	ever		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme across sea=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Till the palace looked very small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	ADP	_	3 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past					till the palace	small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Till the mountains looked tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	ADP	_	3 mountains	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mountains	det
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past					till the mountains	tiny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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