Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales by Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, part 145:…

what's the Himalayas, like a playground?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Himalayas · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 934 «Fairy Tales by Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, part 145: the Winds tell their travels, and the East Wind flies the prince toward paradise» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Himalayas	det
4	Himalayas	Himalaya	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 what	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 playground	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 playground	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 playground	det
8	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Himalayas	appos
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Himalayas						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

nah, they're the highest mountains in Asia, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 mountains	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mountains	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mountains	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
6	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 mountains	amod
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Asia	case
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mountains	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mountains	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	the highest mountains		Asia		bro vocative	tree rules

Option 2

nah, mate, they're the tallest mountains in Asia, covered in snow, and nobody can climb them without a guide, proper hard

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 mountains	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 nah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mountains	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mountains	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountains	det
8	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 mountains	amod
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Asia	case
11	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mountains	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 covered	punct
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mountains	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 snow	case
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 climb	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 climb	cc
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 climb	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 climb	aux
20	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 mountains	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 climb	obj
22	without	without	ADP	_	24 guide	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 guide	det
24	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 climb	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hard	punct
26	proper	properly	ADV	_	27 hard	advmod
27	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 climb	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	the tallest mountains	Asia		tree rules
2	cover	participle		the tallest mountains not said here		in snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in snow=Theme
3	climb	can	nobody	mountains = mountain		without a guide; hard property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they're the highest mountains in the whole world, full of snow and ice, the top of Asia, bro, no cap

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 mountains	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mountains	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mountains	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
6	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 mountains	amod
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 world	amod
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mountains	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 world	amod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 snow	case
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ice	cc
17	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snow	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 top	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snow	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Asia	case
22	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 top	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bro	punct
24	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snow	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cap	punct
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 cap	det
27	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mountains	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	the highest mountains		the whole world		no cap nmod	tree rules

Option 4

nah, they're some big rocks in Africa, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 rocks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rocks	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rocks	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 rocks	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rocks	amod
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rocks	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rocks	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	some big rocks		Africa		bro vocative	tree rules

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