Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

wait so what's the tinderbox even for, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, innit · To what, where: tinderbox

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1002 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldier takes gold from the dogs' chests, spends it, and calls the princess up with the tinder-box» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 tinderbox	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tinderbox	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tinderbox	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tinderbox	det
6	tinderbox	tinderbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 for	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	1 wait	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the tinderbox	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it makes sparks to start fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 start	mark
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	sparks					tree rules
2	start	to-infinitive	sparks not said here	fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 2

it makes a spark to light a fire for money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spark	det
4	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 light	mark
6	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 money	case
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	a spark					tree rules
2	light	to-infinitive	a spark not said here	a fire				for money	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for money=Beneficiary

Option 3

it starts the king's fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fire	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	it	the king's fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality
2	fire		the king						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

it lights the candles up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lights	nsubj
2	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 candles	det
4	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lights	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	2 lights	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	present	it	the candles					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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