Test 9 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…

What's the massive heap at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: massive heap · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heap	det
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heap	amod
5	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heap	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the massive heap at the end						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

Loads of soft snow, they went right in and got stuck in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 snow	case
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 in	advmod
9	in	in	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
12	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Loads of soft snow						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	Loads of soft snow not said here					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Loads of soft snow, they went right in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 snow	case
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	right	right	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	7 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Loads of soft snow					right property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Heaps of snow, they fell right in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 snow	case
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Heaps	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	right	right	ADV	_	6 fell	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	6 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Heaps of snow					right property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Tons of powder, they landed in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 landed	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 powder	case
3	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tons	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 landed	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 landed	nsubj
6	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	Tons of powder			powder			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in it=Destination

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