Test 7 · ★ · Jurgen, Jurgen, part 175: a boy rides to a funeral, then s…

lol the adders sound lethal, did they actually bite anyone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: adders · What happens: sound, bite · To what, where: anyone

This is test 7 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 sound	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adders	det
3	adders	adder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sound	nsubj
4	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lethal	lethal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bite	punct
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bite	aux
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bite	nsubj
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 bite	advmod
10	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	conj
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 bite	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	the adders					lethal property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	bite	past · do-support	adders = adder	anyone				actually property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient

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 travellers warned that the adders were poisonous and that a man had died from one

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 travellers	det
2	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warned	nsubj
3	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 poisonous	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 adders	det
6	adders	adder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poisonous	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	cop
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warned	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 died	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 died	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 died	aux
14	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 poisonous	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 warned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	the travellers	from one	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the adders	poisonous property	tree rules
3	die	past · perfect	a man		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the travellers warned that the adders were poisonous and there were many

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 travellers	det
2	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warned	nsubj
3	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 poisonous	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 adders	det
6	adders	adder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poisonous	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	cop
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warned	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 were	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	conj
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 poisonous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	the travellers			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the adders		poisonous property	tree rules
3	be	past	the adders not said here	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be		the adders not said here			tree rules

Option 3

the travellers said the adders were rare and nobody got bitten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 travellers	det
2	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 adders	det
5	adders	adder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rare	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rare	cop
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bitten	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 bitten	nsubj
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bitten	aux:pass
11	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rare	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the travellers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the adders		rare property	tree rules
3	bite	past · passive		nobody		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

the travellers warned that the adders were poisonous and there were many on the heath

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 travellers	det
2	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warned	nsubj
3	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 poisonous	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 adders	det
6	adders	adder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poisonous	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	cop
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heath	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 were	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heath	cop
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 were	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 heath	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heath	det
15	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	the travellers			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the adders		poisonous property	tree rules
3	is	past		the heath		tree rules

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