Test 10 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince…
Sick, what grew over the masts, like proper weird?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: sick, grow · To what, where: masts
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1888 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince signs up for the Ice Mountain quest, is wrecked, and frees a crew of enchanted sailors» 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 | Sick | sick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sick | conj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 masts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 masts | det |
| 7 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weird | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 weird | case |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weird | amod |
| 11 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sick | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sick | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the masts | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mast=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 · ← Mova's choice
Ivy, till it looked like a hedge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivy | Ivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ivy | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 hedge | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hedge | det |
| 8 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Ivy | like a hedge | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Vines, till it looked like a jungle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 jungle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jungle | det |
| 8 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Vines | like a jungle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Leaves, till it looked like a wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Leaves | like a wood | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Weeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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