Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…
so the cabs and carriages were all crazy in the street
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cabs · What happens: be · To what, where: street
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | _ | 8 crazy | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cabs | det |
| 3 | cabs | cab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crazy | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 carriages | cc |
| 5 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cabs | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crazy | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 crazy | advmod |
| 8 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 street | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 street | det |
| 11 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crazy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cabs and carriages | the street | all, crazy 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, rolling carriages and omnibuses everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 rolling | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolling | punct |
| 3 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rolling | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 omnibuses | cc |
| 6 | omnibuses | omnibus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carriages | conj |
| 7 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 rolling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | gerund | carriages and omnibuses | everywhere property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme |
Option 2
yes, bicycles and wagons raced around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 bicycles | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | bicycles | bicycle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wagons | cc |
| 5 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bicycles | conj |
| 6 | raced | race | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bicycles | acl |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 raced | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race around | participle | bicycles and wagons not said here | around property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
yeah, horses and cabs filled the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 filled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 filled | punct |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cabs | cc |
| 5 | cabs | cab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 horses | conj |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | horses and cabs | the road | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
Option 4
yeah, lots of carts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 lots | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 carts | case |
| 5 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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