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Test 6 · ★ · Water, deserts and the shape of the land

In a film, quicksand closes over the hero's hat and he's gone. What's the true version?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quicksand, true version · What happens: close, be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 16 «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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

Sentence 1: In a film, quicksand closes over the hero's hat and he's gone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 closes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 film	punct
5	quicksand	quicksand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 closes	nsubj
6	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	11 hat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hero	det
9	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hat	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 hero	case
11	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 closes	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gone	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gone	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	cop
15	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 closes	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 closes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present	quicksand					over the hero's hat; in a film	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in film=Topic
2	is	present	quicksand					gone property	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.

Sentence 2: What's the true version?

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	5 version	det
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 version	amod
5	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the true version						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

People float in quicksand, so it can't pull you under

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 float	nsubj
2	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 quicksand	case
4	quicksand	quicksand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 float	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pull	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 pull	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pull	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pull	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 pull	advmod
10	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 float	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 pull	obj
12	under	under	ADP	_	10 pull	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	People			quicksand			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quicksand=Trajectory
2	not pull under	can	quicksand	you					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result

Option 2

Quicksand works like a whirlpool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quicksand	quicksand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 whirlpool	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 whirlpool	det
5	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Quicksand					like a whirlpool	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Quicksand really does swallow people whole within seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quicksand	quicksand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallow	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 swallow	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swallow	aux
4	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swallow	obj
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swallow	xcomp
7	within	within	ADP	_	8 seconds	case
8	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swallow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present · do-support	Quicksand	people			second	whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only heavy people sink all the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 heavy	advmod
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sink	nsubj
4	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	heavy people	all way					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Patient

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