Test 4 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

What would happen if the Man's house were on a hill?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 90 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» 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	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 hill	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Man	det
6	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Man	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hill	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hill	cop
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 hill	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hill	det
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the Man's house			a hill			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 · ✓ the right answer

The flooding sea could not wet it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	flooding	flooding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sea	compound
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wet	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wet	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wet	advmod
6	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wet	could	the flooding sea	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would be dry

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	4 dry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dry	cop
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					dry property	tree rules

Option 3

The flooding sea could not wet it, so the Man would stay dry and the Magician could sleep

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	flooding	flooding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sea	compound
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wet	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wet	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wet	advmod
6	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wet	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 stay	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Man	det
11	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stay	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	aux
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wet	conj
14	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stay	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sleep	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Magician	det
17	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sleep	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sleep	aux
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not wet	could	the flooding sea	it		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	stay	would	the Man		dry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	could	the Magician			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The flooding sea could not wet it, and the mud would stay down in the valley below

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	flooding	flooding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sea	compound
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wet	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wet	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wet	advmod
6	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wet	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stay	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mud	det
11	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stay	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	aux
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wet	conj
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 stay	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 valley	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 valley	det
17	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stay	obl
18	below	below	ADV	_	17 valley	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wet	could	the flooding sea	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	stay down	would	the mud			the valley		down property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location

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