Test 6 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

Ngl, what did the gondolas glide over in Venice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, gondolas · What happens: do, glide over · To what, where: Venice

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gondolas	det
6	gondolas	gondola	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 glide	nsubj
7	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 glide	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Venice	case
10	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 glide	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	glide over	present	the gondolas			Venice		over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in venice=Trajectory

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

silver canals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 canals	compound
2	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the rippling sunlit waves of the Adriatic sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 waves	det
2	rippling	rippling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waves	compound
3	sunlit	sunlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 waves	amod
4	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
7	Adriatic	Adriatic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sea	compound
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waves	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave			the Adriatic sea					nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

green water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the dark green water of the old canal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 canal	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 canal	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 canal	amod
8	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	nmod

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

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