Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost i…

Seriously, why'd their faces go all black like that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: faces · What happens: go

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» 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	Seriously	seriously	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seriously	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 faces	aux
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 faces	nmod:poss
6	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 black	advmod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 black	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	their faces					black, seriously property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

from drinking the lake water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	SCONJ	_	2 drinking	mark
2	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
4	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		the lake water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

from eating loads of blackberries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	SCONJ	_	2 eating	mark
2	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eating	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 blackberries	case
5	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		loads of blackberries					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

from rolling in the mud by the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	SCONJ	_	2 rolling	mark
2	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mud	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mud	det
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolling	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 stream	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stream	det
8	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund				the mud		by the stream	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mud=Source by stream=Trajectory

Option 4

from the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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