Test 5 · ★ · Jurgen, Jurgen, part 175: a boy rides to a funeral, then s…

wait, the juniper bush was in bloom in what season?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, juniper bush · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: bloom

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 964 «Jurgen, Jurgen, part 175: a boy rides to a funeral, then sails out and sees a Spanish city» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bloom	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bush	det
4	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bush	compound
5	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bloom	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bloom	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 bloom	case
8	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 season	case
10	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	11 season	det
11	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bloom	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the juniper bush			bloom	season		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 summer, when the juniper bloomed so thickly that it looked like snow on the heath

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 summer	det
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thickly	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 thickly	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 juniper	det
6	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thickly	nsubj
7	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 juniper	acl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 thickly	advmod
9	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 snow	case
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 heath	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 heath	det
17	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	participle		the juniper not said here					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	it				summer	like snow; on the heath	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on heath=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the summer, which is why it looked like snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 summer	det
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 why	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 why	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 why	cop
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 looked	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 snow	case
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	tree rules
2	look	past	it				summer	like snow	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the summer, which is why it looked like snow among the green branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 summer	det
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 why	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 why	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 why	cop
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 looked	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 snow	case
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl
11	among	among	ADP	_	14 branches	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 branches	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 branches	amod
14	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	tree rules
2	look	past	it				summer	like snow; among the green branches	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among branch=Theme

Option 4

the autumn, which is why it looked like snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 autumn	det
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 why	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 why	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 why	cop
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 looked	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 snow	case
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	tree rules
2	look	past	the autumn					like snow	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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