Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

Honestly, what made the hut walls look like they vanished?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hut walls, walls · What happens: make, look, vanish

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	compound
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	ccomp
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 vanished	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 vanished	nsubj
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 look	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	make	past		honestly property	tree rules
2	look	present	the hut walls		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	vanish	past	walls = wall		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

The angel's glowing wings spreading light across the snowy walls of the hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 angel	det
2	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wings	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 angel	case
4	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wings	amod
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wings	acl
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spreading	obj
8	across	across	ADP	_	11 walls	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 walls	det
10	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 walls	amod
11	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spreading	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hut	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hut	det
14	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread	gerund	the angel's glowing wings not said here	light		the snowy walls of the hut			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The angel's glowing wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 angel	det
2	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wings	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 angel	case
4	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wings	amod
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The northern lights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lights	det
2	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lights	amod
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The bright moon above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moon	amod
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	above	above	ADV	_	3 moon	advmod

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

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