Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by…

were the Russian horses like normal ponies or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Russian horses · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 815 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning, and the Dryad hears of the Paris Exhibition and its doom» 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	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horses	amod
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 were	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 ponies	case
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ponies	amod
7	ponies	pony	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 horses	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ponies	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the Russian horses like normal ponies						vn exist-47.1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

gentle grey horses that carry the farmers' carts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 horses	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farmers	det
7	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carts	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 farmers	case
9	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	gentle grey horses	the farmers's carts					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

Option 2

fiery and glorious horses of the steppe that were brought to Paris by Cossacks from the far eastern frontier

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horses	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 glorious	cc
3	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fiery	conj
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 steppe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steppe	det
7	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horses	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 brought	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 brought	aux:pass
10	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 steppe	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Paris	case
12	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 Cossacks	case
14	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 brought	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 frontier	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 frontier	det
17	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 frontier	amod
18	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 frontier	amod
19	frontier	frontier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive	Cossacks	the steppe	Paris	the far eastern frontier			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to paris=Destination from frontier=Initial_Location

Option 3

small shaggy horses of the far grassland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
2	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 grassland	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grassland	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grassland	amod
7	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horses	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

fiery and glorious horses of the steppe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horses	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 glorious	cc
3	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fiery	conj
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 steppe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steppe	det
7	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horses	nmod

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

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