Test 11 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Ja…

What was on the hedges and gates, like, all over?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: hedges

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 643 «The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Jane sneak out to see the Northern Lights and set off across the snowy fields toward the North Pole.» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hedges	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hedges	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hedges	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hedges	det
5	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gates	cc
7	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hedges	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	5 hedges	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 over	punct
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 over	advmod
12	over	over	ADV	_	9 like	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hedges	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the hedges and gates			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 · ← Mova's choice

Really long hanging icicles all over the place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Really	really	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
3	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 place	csubj
4	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hanging	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 place	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund		icicles					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent icicle=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Massive icicles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 icicles	amod
2	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Frozen cobwebs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cobwebs	amod
2	cobwebs	cobweb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Huge sparkling icicles dripping from every single branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 icicles	amod
2	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 icicles	amod
3	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	dripping	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 icicles	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 branch	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 branch	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 branch	amod
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dripping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drip	gerund	Huge sparkling icicles not said here			every single branch			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from branch=Source

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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