Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…

so the strangers went down under the fountain? that's wild

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: strangers, that · What happens: go down, be · To what, where: fountain

This is test 5 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 strangers	det
3	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 fountain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fountain	det
8	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 wild	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wild	cop
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the strangers			the fountain		down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under fountain=Location
2	is	present	that					wild property	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

yeah, down a winding stone stair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 stair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stair	punct
3	down	down	ADP	_	7 stair	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stair	det
5	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stone	compound
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stair	compound
7	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

no, they went through the fountain's pipe and crawled down a long wet tunnel below

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	9 pipe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fountain	det
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pipe	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 fountain	case
9	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crawled	cc
11	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 crawled	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tunnel	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tunnel	amod
15	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tunnel	amod
16	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crawled	parataxis
17	below	below	ADV	_	16 tunnel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they			the fountain's pipe			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through pipe=Initial_Location
2	crawl down	past	they not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, down a spiral iron staircase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 staircase	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 staircase	punct
3	down	down	ADP	_	7 staircase	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 staircase	det
5	spiral	spiral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 staircase	amod
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 staircase	compound
7	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they lifted a heavy stone slab and went down a spiral iron staircase into the dark

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lifted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 slab	det
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 slab	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slab	compound
8	slab	slab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 staircase	det
13	spiral	spiral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 staircase	amod
14	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 staircase	compound
15	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 dark	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dark	det
18	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	they	a heavy stone slab					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slab=Theme
2	go down	past	they not said here	a spiral iron staircase		the dark			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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