Test 9 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

Hang on, how did the island start spinning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, island · What happens: hang on, start, spin

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 start	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 start	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 start	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	nsubj
8	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hang	advcl
9	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 start	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start	past · do-support	the island	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	spin	gerund	the island not said here	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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

A giant pushed it from below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushed	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 below	case
6	below	below	ADV	_	3 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	a giant	it					vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from below=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It got loose and spun away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spun	cc
5	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 loose	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 spun	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	It					loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	spin away	participle						away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It got loose from its chain and spun away while everyone slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loose	loose	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 chain	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 chain	nmod:poss
6	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spun	cc
8	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 spun	advmod
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 slept	mark
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 slept	nsubj
12	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	It	its chain	loose property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from chain=Destination
2	spin away	participle			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	past	everyone			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It got loose from the sea bed and spun away into the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loose	loose	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bed	compound
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spun	cc
9	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 spun	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sky	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sky	det
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spun	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	It			the sea bed		loose property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from bed=Destination
2	spin away	past				the sky		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sky=Trajectory

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