Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

so the palace was like castles in the clouds, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: clouds

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 palace	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 castles	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 castles	case
6	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 palace	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 clouds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clouds	det
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 castles	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 palace	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 palace	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 palace	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the clouds		like castles	tree rules

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, like castles you see by moonlight, but made of ice and dead cold mist

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 castles	case
4	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 moonlight	case
8	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 see	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 ice	case
13	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mist	cc
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mist	amod
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mist	amod
17	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you					like castles; by moonlight	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	participle	you not said here					of ice and dead cold mist	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

Nah, more like a fancy farm, dead ordinary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 dead	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 farm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 farm	det
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 farm	amod
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 more	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 more	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ordinary	amod
10	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, like clouds up top, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 clouds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clouds	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 clouds	case
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	6 top	case
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clouds	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clouds	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, like castles you see by moonlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 castles	case
4	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 moonlight	case
8	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you					like castles; by moonlight	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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