Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

mate, what was coming outta that chimney?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: come · To what, where: outta

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 coming	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 coming	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 coming	aux
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 mate	conj
6	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 chimney	det
8	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 outta	nmod:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	mate	outta that chimney					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location outta=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

Just smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 smoke	advmod
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Smoke, and it smelled like roast pork, dead tasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dead	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smelled	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smelled	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smelled	nsubj
5	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Smoke	acl:relcl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 pork	case
7	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pork	compound
8	pork	pork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Smoke	punct
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tasty	amod
11	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	it	Smoke not said here				like roast pork	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus

Option 3

Sparks, and it smelled like sour wine, dead odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smelled	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smelled	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smelled	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smelled	nsubj
5	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 wine	case
7	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wine	amod
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 odd	punct
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 odd	amod
11	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smelled	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	Sparks					like sour wine	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Dust, and it smelled like burnt bread, pretty rank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelled	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smelled	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smelled	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smelled	nsubj
5	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bread	amod
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rank	punct
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rank	amod
11	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	Dust					like burnt bread and pretty rank	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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