Test 8 · ★ · pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives after his ring, is cla…

Okay, so years later, what are the tourists reading?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tourists · What happens: be, read · To what, where: tourists

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 864 «pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives after his ring, is claimed by the Ice Maiden, and Babette waits out the storm» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	11 reading	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	11 reading	advmod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 later	obl:unmarked
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 reading	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tourists	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 tourists	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tourists	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tourists	det
10	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reading	nsubj
11	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 reading	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the tourists					tree rules
2	read	gerund	the tourists					late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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

Bright red guide-books that they keep reading while the steamboat sails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 books	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 books	amod
3	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 books	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 guide	punct
5	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 keep	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 books	acl:relcl
9	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 sails	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sails	det
12	steamboat	steamboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sails	compound
13	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	books = book	Bright red guide books					tree rules
2	read	gerund	Bright red guide books not said here	the steamboat sails					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their red guide-books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 books	nmod:poss
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 books	amod
3	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 books	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 guide	punct
5	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Their travel brochures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brochures	nmod:poss
2	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brochures	compound
3	brochures	brochure	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Old photos of the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 photos	amod
2	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 valley	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 valley	det
5	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 photos	nmod

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

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