Test 15 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the S…
dude, what did the snakes make into a gateway?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude, snakes · What happens: do, make · To what, where: gateway
This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» 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 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snakes | det |
| 6 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 gateway | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 gateway | det |
| 10 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | dude | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | the snakes | a gateway | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into gateway=Product |
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
branches bent over the path
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 branches | acl |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 path | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 path | det |
| 5 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | participle | branches not said here | the path | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over path=Location |
Option 2
snakes that twisted together into a glowing gateway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 twisted | nsubj |
| 3 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 snakes | acl:relcl |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 twisted | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 gateway | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gateway | det |
| 7 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 gateway | amod |
| 8 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twisted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | snakes | a glowing gateway | together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gateway=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
roots tangled in the earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 roots | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 earth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 earth | det |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tangled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tangle | participle | roots not said here | the earth | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
snakes twisted together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | twisted | twist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 snakes | acl |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 twisted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | participle | snakes not said here | together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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