Test 8 · ★ · Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighter…

did the enemy spears look scary or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: enemy spears · What happens: look

This is test 8 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spears	det
3	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spears	compound
4	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 scary	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the enemy spears					scary 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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, like a wall of iron spikes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wall	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 wall	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 spikes	case
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spikes	compound
8	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wall	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, like a massive hedge of bristles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 hedge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hedge	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 hedge	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hedge	amod
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bristles	case
8	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hedge	nmod

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

Option 3

yeah, like a massive hedge of bristles that looked dead scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 hedge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hedge	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 hedge	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hedge	amod
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bristles	case
8	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hedge	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bristles	acl:relcl
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scary	amod
12	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	bristles					scary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

nah, they looked like long sticks

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 sticks	case
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sticks	amod
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	they					like long sticks	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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