Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

Okay but why did Joanna's tears feel like ice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tears · What happens: feel

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 feel	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 feel	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	aux
5	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tears	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Joanna	case
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Okay	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 ice	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	Joanna's tears					like ice	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like ice=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 just the winter wind

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	6 wind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wind	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 wind	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wind	compound
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the winter wind					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her heart was melting for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 melting	aux
4	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 melting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past · progressive	Her heart					for him = he	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Her heart was frozen with grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frozen	aux:pass
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 grief	case
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · passive		Her heart				with grief	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with grief=Instrument

Option 4

She was cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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