Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

was the water making their faces look weird?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: water · What happens: be, make, look · To what, where: water, faces

This is test 6 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 water	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 water	acl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 faces	nmod:poss
6	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the water		tree rules
2	make	gerund	the water not said here	their faces		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product
3	look	present	the water		weird property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Yeah, all wobbly, so they felt dead dizzy mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wobbly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wobbly	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 wobbly	det
4	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 felt	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 felt	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wobbly	conj
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mate	amod
10	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mate	amod
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 felt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	they	dead dizzy mate					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, all squiggly, so they couldn't stop laughing, even the greedy one, proper daft

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 squiggly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 squiggly	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 squiggly	advmod
4	squiggly	squiggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stop	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 stop	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stop	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stop	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 stop	advmod
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 squiggly	conj
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stop	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laughing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 daft	punct
18	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 daft	amod
19	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 squiggly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	could	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	laugh	gerund	they not said here	the greedy one					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, all squiggly, so they couldn't stop laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 squiggly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 squiggly	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 squiggly	advmod
4	squiggly	squiggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stop	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 stop	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stop	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stop	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 stop	advmod
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 squiggly	conj
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	could	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	laugh	gerund	they not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, it looked normal, but they were dead thirsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thirsty	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 thirsty	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thirsty	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thirsty	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thirsty	amod
11	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					normal property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	they					thirsty property	tree rules

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