Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies…

sus, why was the willow dripping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sus · What happens: be, drip · To what, where: willow

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 807 «Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies the storm and is burnt black» 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dripping	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 willow	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 willow	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 willow	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 willow	det
6	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sus	conj
7	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dripping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sus and the willow not said here	the willow					tree rules
2	drip	gerund	sus and the willow						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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

Water fell from his leaves like tears, since he was crying over the lost buckwheat field

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nmod:poss
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 tears	case
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leaves	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crying	punct
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 crying	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 crying	aux
12	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fell	advcl
13	over	over	ADP	_	17 field	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 field	det
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 field	amod
16	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 field	compound
17	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	fall	past	Water	Water's leaves like tears	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from leaf=Initial_Location
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	Water	the lost buckwheat field	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location
3	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Dew dripped from his branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dew	Dew	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dripped	nsubj
2	dripped	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 branches	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 branches	nmod:poss
5	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drip	past	Dew			Dew's branches			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from branch=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Water fell from his leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nmod:poss
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Water			Water's leaves			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from leaf=Initial_Location

Option 4

Water fell from his leaves after the storm, because he felt sorry for the buckwheat

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nmod:poss
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 storm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storm	det
8	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 felt	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 felt	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
13	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 felt	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 buckwheat	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 buckwheat	det
16	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Water			Water's leaves	after the storm		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from leaf=Initial_Location
2	feel	past	Water					for the buckwheat; sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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