Test 4 · ★ · Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a gra…

wait, why couldnt the little kids ring the bell anymore?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, little kids · What happens: wait, ring · To what, where: couldnt

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 349 «Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a grape-vine, the bell of justice rings, and the judges make the greedy miser share his gold» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ring	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 ring	advmod
4	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kids	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kids	amod
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ring	nsubj
8	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bell	det
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	obj
11	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	8 ring	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ring	present	the little kids	couldnt				anymore property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

the rope got too short for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 short	advmod
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the rope					short property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

the rope rotted away slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rotted	nsubj
3	rotted	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 rotted	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 rotted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot away	past	the rope					away, slowly property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

the tower was too high now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tower	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 high	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 high	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tower				now	high property	tree rules

Option 4

rope was too thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 thin	advmod
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	rope					thin property	tree rules

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