Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…
bro, that stone slab opening was a whole mystery
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone slab, bro · What happens: open, be · To what, where: whole mystery
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 817 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows strangers down into the Paris sewers» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mystery | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slab | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 slab | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slab | compound |
| 5 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bro | appos |
| 6 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 slab | acl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mystery | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mystery | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mystery | amod |
| 10 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | that stone slab not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | bro | a whole mystery | tree rules |
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
true, the slab moved on its own somehow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slab | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 true | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slab | det |
| 4 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 own | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 own | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moved | obl |
| 9 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the true slab | slab's own | somehow property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory |
Option 2
yeah, the dryad had no idea why it lifted and the strangers seemed to know exactly what to do
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dryad | det |
| 4 | dryad | dryad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lifted | advcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 idea | det |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 lifted | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lifted | nsubj |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 strangers | det |
| 13 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lifted | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 18 what | advmod |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 know | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the dryad | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | dryad | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | the strangers | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | the strangers not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
Option 3
yeah, nobody could see who pulled it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 see | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 pulled | nsubj |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pulled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pull | past | it | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, the dryad had no idea why it lifted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dryad | det |
| 4 | dryad | dryad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lifted | advcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 idea | det |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 lifted | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lifted | nsubj |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the dryad | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | dryad | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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