Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins ba…

why couldn't the nymphs go on land, fr?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nymphs · What happens: not go · To what, where: land

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2068 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins back his men from the swine and sees the sea nymphs» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nymphs	det
5	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 land	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 land	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	could	the nymphs			land and fr			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on land=Location

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

they feared the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	they	the sun					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus

Option 2

they grow weak in dry air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 air	amod
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	they			dry air		weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they'd get faint without the salt breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	without	without	ADP	_	8 breeze	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 breeze	det
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breeze	compound
8	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	they					without the salt breeze; faint property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

their father forbade them from ever leaving the sea waters at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forbade	nsubj
3	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forbade	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 leaving	mark
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 leaving	advmod
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 forbade	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 waters	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waters	compound
10	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leaving	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	past	their father	them = they					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme
2	leave	gerund	their father not said here	the sea waters		all	ever		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme at all=Location

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