Test 9 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

Was the North Pole just dead flat, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: North Pole · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flat	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pole	det
3	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pole	compound
4	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flat	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 flat	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flat	amod
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 flat	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 flat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the North Pole					flat property	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

A huge mountain of snow with caves going down into it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mountain	amod
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 snow	case
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mountain	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 caves	case
7	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mountain	nmod
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	gerund	a huge mountain of snow with caves			snow		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, it was a tall curved wall of ice like a giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 wall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wall	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wall	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wall	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wall	amod
7	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wall	amod
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 ice	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wall	nmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 giant	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curve	participle							vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
2	is a	past	it	a tall curved wall				of ice like a giant	tree rules

Option 3

A bowl like a frozen lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 lake	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lake	det
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lake	amod
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowl	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A pillar like a giant diamond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pillar	det
2	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 diamond	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 diamond	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 diamond	amod
6	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pillar	nmod

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

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