Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greed…

Sus, how was the sea when he got to the shore the first time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: be, get · To what, where: sea

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1938 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greedy wife wants to be emperor, then pope, then god, and ends back in her hut» 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	9 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sea	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sea	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sea	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sus	conj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 shore	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shore	det
12	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sus and the sea not said here	the sea					tree rules
2	get	past	Sus and the sea				time	to the shore result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result

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

dark and foaming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 foaming	cc
3	foaming	foaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dark	conj

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

Option 2

a wild storm with waves higher than towers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storm	amod
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 higher	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 waves	case
5	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 storm	nmod
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 towers	case
8	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 higher	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

black, thick, and covered with cold foam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 covered	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thick	punct
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 black	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 covered	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 covered	cc
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 foam	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 foam	amod
9	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle · passive		black				with cold foam	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with foam=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

black and thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 thick	cc
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 black	conj

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

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