Test 8 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

Sus, what came down over the sea in the evening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: come down · To what, where: sea

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 evening	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	Sus			the sea	evening	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial_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 · ← Mova's choice

Snow, proper cold, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cold	amod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cold	discourse

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

Option 2

Mist, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mist	punct
3	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Mist	discourse

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

Option 3

Thick grey fog, can't see nothing, proper scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fog	amod
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fog	amod
3	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fog	acl:relcl
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scary	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 scary	amod
11	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fog	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Thick grey fog not said here	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thick fog, can't see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fog	amod
2	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fog	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Thick fog not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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