Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…
was the moor a lake long ago?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moor · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ago | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moor | det |
| 3 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ago | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ago | nsubj |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 ago | advmod |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ago | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the moor | ago, long 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
Yeah, the ground rose up from the bottom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 rose | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ground | det |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 rose | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bottom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bottom | det |
| 9 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | the ground | the bottom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bottom=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Nope, the sea covered it up later on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 covered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 covered | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 covered | compound:prt |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 covered | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 covered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover up | past | the sea | it | late property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
Option 3
Yeah, the water sank down under it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sank | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | nsubj |
| 5 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sank | compound:prt |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sank | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink down | past | the water | it | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the ground heaved up from under it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 heaved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heaved | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ground | det |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heaved | nsubj |
| 5 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 heaved | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heaved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave up | past | the ground | it | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from it=Initial_Location |
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