Test 8 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

What did the trees go all sparkly with, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trees · What happens: do, go

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess» 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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 sparkly	advmod
7	sparkly	sparkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 fam	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sparkly	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	go	present	the trees					sparkly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

pearls and sapphires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sapphires	cc
3	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pearls	conj

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

Option 2

shining rubies, diamonds, pearls, and bright golden fruit on the boughs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 shining	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 diamonds	punct
4	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rubies	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pearls	punct
6	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rubies	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fruit	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fruit	cc
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fruit	amod
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fruit	amod
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shining	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 boughs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boughs	det
14	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fruit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund		rubies and diamonds and pearls				bright golden fruit on the boughs obl	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ruby=Theme

Option 3

rubies, emeralds and diamonds hung from every branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hung	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 emeralds	punct
3	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 rubies	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 diamonds	cc
5	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 rubies	conj
6	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 branch	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 branch	det
9	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	participle	rubies and emeralds and diamonds			every branch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

rubies and diamonds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 diamonds	cc
3	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 rubies	conj

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

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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