Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…
Bare dancing all day! What finally stops the fiddle crowd?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: dance, stop · To what, where: fiddle crowd
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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
Sentence 1: Bare dancing all day!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dancing | amod |
| 2 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dancing | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 dancing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | gerund | day | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: What finally stops the fiddle crowd?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 stops | obj |
| 2 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 3 stops | advmod |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crowd | det |
| 5 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crowd | compound |
| 6 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stops | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the fiddle crowd | finally property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Darkness falls, and there is no light left to hang him by
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 falls | nsubj |
| 2 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 is | cc |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 falls | advcl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 light | det |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 light | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hang | mark |
| 11 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 left | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hang | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 hang | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Darkness | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | no light | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | no light not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hang | to-infinitive | no light not said here | light | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2
The crowd grows tired at last
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grows | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 last | case |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the crowd | last | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Darkness falls, no light to hang him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 falls | nsubj |
| 2 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 light | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 falls | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hang | mark |
| 7 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 light | acl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hang | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Darkness | no light | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient light=Result | ||||
| 2 | hang | to-infinitive | Darkness not said here | Darkness | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4
The king stops the music now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stops | nsubj |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 music | det |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stops | obj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stops | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the king | the music | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector music=Eventuality |
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