Test 2 · ★★★ · Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures

★★ In «Faster than fairies, faster than witches, / Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches», what do the bridges, houses and hedges show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Faster · What happens: do, show · To what, where: witches

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the English 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Faster	nsubj
3	In	in	ADP	_	5 Faster	case
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Faster	punct
5	Faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 show	nsubj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 fairies	case
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Faster	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 faster	punct
9	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 Faster	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 witches	case
11	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 faster	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Bridges	punct
13	/	/	SYM	_	14 Bridges	punct
14	Bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 witches	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 houses	cc
16	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 Bridges	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hedges	punct
18	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 witches	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ditches	cc
20	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hedges	conj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 hedges	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 do	obj
24	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 witches	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bridges	det
26	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 do	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 houses	punct
28	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bridges	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hedges	cc
30	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bridges	conj
31	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Faster not said here	witches and Bridges and houses and hedges and ditches					tree rules
2	show	present	Faster						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Things the witches built

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witches	det
3	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Things	nmod
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	participle · passive		Things the witches					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Places the fairies live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fairies	det
3	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Places	conj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Places and the fairies						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Things flashing past the train window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	flashing	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Things	acl
3	past	past	ADP	_	6 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
5	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 window	compound
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flashing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	gerund	Things not said here					past the train window	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A shopping list

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 list	det
2	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 list	compound
3	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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