Test 10 · ★ · Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighter…
why's Grace's grave such a big deal?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grave · What happens: be
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» 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=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 why | cop |
| 3 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grave | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Grace | case |
| 5 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 why | nsubj |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 deal | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grave | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Grace's grave and such big deal | why property | 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 · ← Mova's choice
people go visit it every year to honour her bravery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 go | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 visit | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visit | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 honour | mark |
| 8 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 visit | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bravery | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 honour | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | people | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | visit | infinitive | people not said here | it | year | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | honour | to-infinitive | people not said here | her bravery | tree rules |
Option 2
she saved lots of lives
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saved | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lives | case |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lots | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | she | lots of lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
Option 3
loads of folk come to see it every year at the shore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 folk | case |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 loads | nmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 shore | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shore | det |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | loads of folk | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | loads of folk not said here | folk | the shore | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
people go visit it every year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 go | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 visit | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visit | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | people | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | visit | infinitive | people not said here | it | year | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
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