Test 10 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…

which mountains open at midday, and which at midnight?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mountains · What happens: open · To what, where: midday

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 mountains	det
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 open	nsubj
3	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midday	case
5	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 open	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 midnight	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 midnight	cc
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 midnight	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 midnight	case
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 open	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	which mountains			midday	midnight		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=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

the Life one at noon, the Death one at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Life	det
2	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Life	flat
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 noon	case
5	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Death	det
8	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Life	appos
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 midnight	case
11	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nmod

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

Option 2

the mountain of Life at noon, the mountain of Death at midnight, both shut by dawn

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mountain	det
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Life	case
4	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mountain	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 noon	case
6	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mountain	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mountain	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noon	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Death	case
11	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mountain	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 midnight	case
13	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mountain	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shut	punct
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	16 shut	advmod
16	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mountain	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 dawn	case
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shut	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the Life one at midday, Death one at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Life	det
2	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nsubj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midday	case
5	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
7	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 one	nmod:unmarked
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the one for Life at noon, the other for Death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 Life	case
4	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 noon	case
6	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 other	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 one	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 Death	case
11	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 other	obl

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

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