Test 11 · ★ · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…

what did the gold-fishes do with their heads, lol?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gold fishes · What happens: do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fishes	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fishes	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 gold	punct
6	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 heads	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heads	nmod:poss
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 did	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the gold fishes					with fishes's heads	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

bent them sideways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bent	obj
3	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	1 bent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past		them = they				sideways property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material

Option 2

turned them all in the same direction at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turned	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 them	nmod:unmarked
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 direction	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 direction	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 direction	amod
7	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		them = they		the same direction			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in direction=Source at once=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

turned them one way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turned	obj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 way	nummod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		them = they				one way obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

turned them round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turned	obj
3	round	round	ADV	_	1 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		them = they				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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