Test 8 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…

the mountains slam shut and the horse gets smashed, that's peak

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mountains, that · What happens: slam, smash, be · To what, where: horse, peak

This is test 8 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mountains	det
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slam	nsubj
3	slam	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slam	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smashed	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smashed	nsubj:pass
8	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 smashed	aux:pass
9	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 slam	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 peak	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 peak	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 peak	cop
13	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slam	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slam	present	the mountains		shut property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	smash	present · passive		the horse		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is a	present	that	peak		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

yeah, the hind legs got crushed right off, bro, proper gruesome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 crushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crushed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 legs	det
4	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legs	amod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crushed	nsubj:pass
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crushed	aux:pass
7	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 off	advmod
9	off	off	ADV	_	7 crushed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crushed	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gruesome	punct
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gruesome	amod
14	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bro	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	past · passive		the hind legs				off property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

yeah, the front legs went, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 legs	det
4	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legs	amod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the front legs	fam					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the horse got out just fine, the mountains only grazed the tail, innit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grazed	advcl
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 fine	advmod
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mountains	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountains	det
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grazed	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 grazed	advmod
13	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tail	det
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grazed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tail	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	past	the horse					fine, out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	graze	past	the mountains	the tail and innit					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the hind legs went, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 legs	det
4	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legs	amod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the hind legs	fam					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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