Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

why do the stars go down on graves though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stars · What happens: go down · To what, where: graves

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 929 «Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stars	det
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 graves	case
8	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obl
9	though	though	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	present · do-support	the stars			graves		down, though property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on grave=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

cause Ole thinks silent thanks get caught up and fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thinks	csubj
2	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	xcomp
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thanks	amod
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 caught	nsubj:pass
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	aux:pass
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thinks	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 caught	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fall	cc
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 caught	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive		ole property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	think speech: other	present			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	catch up	present · passive	silent thanks		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	fall	infinitive			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

cause the dead like shiny stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dead	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 stuff	case
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuff	amod
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here	the dead				like shiny stuff	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition dead=Patient

Option 3

cause they're dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 dead	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					dead property	tree rules

Option 4

cause the wind blows them down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 blows	parataxis
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blows	nsubj
4	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blows	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 blows	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	blow down	present	the wind	them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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