Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

wait, what kind of places did Peter ride through first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Peter · What happens: wait, ride

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 places	case
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ride	aux
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ride	nsubj
9	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	advcl
10	through	through	ADV	_	9 ride	advmod
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 ride	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	past · do-support	Peter					first, through property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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

great salt deserts under a burning sky with no shade for miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 deserts	amod
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deserts	compound
3	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 sky	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sky	det
6	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 sky	amod
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deserts	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 shade	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 shade	det
10	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sky	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 miles	case
12	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shade	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

rivers where the fish never swam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swam	nsubj
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 swam	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swam	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 swam	advmod
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	past	rivers						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

forests where the sun never shone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 shone	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shone	nsubj:pass
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 shone	advmod
6	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 forests	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shine	participle · passive		the sun					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 4

mountains where snow never melts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 melts	advmod
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melts	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 melts	advmod
5	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 mountains	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not melt	present	snow						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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