Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the S…

bet, what did the ship lay across to the pier?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bet, ship · What happens: do, lie

This is test 6 · ★ 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	bet	bet	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 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	across	across	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 pier	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pier	det
11	pier	pier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bet						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	the ship					to the pier; across property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 silver gangway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gangway	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gangway	amod
3	gangway	gangway	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a long plank of polished golden wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plank	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plank	amod
3	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
5	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wood	amod
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plank	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a glass bridge of crystal arches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bridge	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bridge	compound
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 arches	case
5	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arches	amod
6	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bridge	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a crystal plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plank	det
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plank	amod
3	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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