Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…
Did the spell last till the world ends, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: world · What happens: do, end · To what, where: spell
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spell | det |
| 3 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Did | xcomp |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 ends | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ends | nsubj |
| 8 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the spell | last property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | end | present | the world | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Till the world ends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 3 world | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 world | det |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ends | nsubj |
| 4 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the world | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2
Until the end of time itself and beyond the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Until | until | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sky | cc |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 10 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Until the seas dry up and the mountains fall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 4 dry | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seas | det |
| 3 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dry | nsubj |
| 4 | dry | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 dry | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fall | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fall | nsubj |
| 9 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dry | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry up | present | the seas | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fall | present | the mountains | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forever | forever | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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