Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

What's the Rhone's job here?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: job, Rhone · What happens: be, job

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rhone	det
4	Rhone	Rhone	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 job	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rhone	case
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 job	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Rhone's job						tree rules
2	job		the Rhone						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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

it splits the two cantons, with a bridge and a ferry and a whole lot of fish swimming in it

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 splits	nsubj
2	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cantons	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cantons	nummod
5	cantons	canton	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 splits	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bridge	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splits	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ferry	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ferry	det
12	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bridge	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 swimming	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lot	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lot	amod
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swimming	obl:unmarked
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 fish	case
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lot	nmod
19	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 splits	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 swimming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	present	it	the two cantons				with a bridge and a ferry	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent canton=Patient with bridge=Instrument
2	swim	gerund		a whole lot of fish		lot			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory

Option 2

it splits the cantons, a bridge over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 splits	nsubj
2	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cantons	det
4	cantons	canton	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 splits	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bridge	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splits	obl
8	over	over	ADV	_	2 splits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	present	it	the cantons				a bridge obl; over property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canton=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it splits the two cantons, with a bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 splits	nsubj
2	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cantons	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cantons	nummod
5	cantons	canton	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 splits	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bridge	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	present	it	the two cantons				with a bridge	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent canton=Patient with bridge=Instrument

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it cuts the valley, with a ferry on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cuts	nsubj
2	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 valley	det
4	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cuts	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ferry	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 ferry	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ferry	det
8	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cuts	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ferry	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	it	the valley					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material valley=Product

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