Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…

Lit question, why was the river super scary?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: river

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» 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	Lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 question	amod
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 river	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 river	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 river	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 question	appos
8	super	super	ADV	_	9 scary	advmod
9	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 question	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the river					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 · ✓ the right answer

Rain and melted snow made it swollen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 snow	cc
3	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rain	conj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	past	Rain and melted snow	snow				swollen property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2

Rain and melted snow made it swollen, and the current ran fast and deep down the valley

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 snow	cc
3	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rain	conj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 current	det
11	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 ran	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 deep	cc
15	deep	deep	ADV	_	13 fast	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	18 valley	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 valley	det
18	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	melt	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	past	Rain and melted snow	snow		swollen property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	run	past	the current		the valley	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down valley=Trajectory

Option 3

Strong winds pushed the waves high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 winds	amod
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 waves	det
5	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pushed	obj
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pushed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	Strong winds	the waves				high property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Rain and melted snow from the high peaks made it swollen, so no one could cross without ropes

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melted	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 melted	cc
3	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melted	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 made	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 peaks	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 peaks	amod
8	peaks	peak	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 melted	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cross	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 cross	advmod
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cross	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cross	aux
17	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 melted	conj
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 ropes	case
19	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	melt	past	Rain	snow		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient snow=Result
2	make	past	the high peaks	snow	swollen property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	cross	could	no one		without ropes	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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