Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

Why did the Mother-Frog go mental about the light?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mother · What happens: go

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mother	det
4	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Frog	punct
6	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mother	appos
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 light	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 light	det
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mental	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Mother					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It was too loud

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	4 loud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					loud property	tree rules

Option 2

The light was too strong and blinded her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blinded	cc
7	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 blinded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the light					strong property	tree rules
2	blind	past	the light not said here	her = she					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was too bright and gave her a sore head and eyes

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	4 bright	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 bright	advmod
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gave	cc
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 head	det
9	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 head	amod
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eyes	cc
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 head	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					bright property	tree rules
2	give	past		a sore head and eyes	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient head=Theme

Option 4

It was too dim and gave her a headache

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	4 dim	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dim	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 dim	advmod
4	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gave	cc
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dim	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 headache	det
9	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					dim property	tree rules
2	give	past		a headache	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient headache=Theme

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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