Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disgu…

Were the glow-worms lit or just mid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: glow worms · What happens: be, lit · To what, where: glow worms

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» 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	Were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 worms	det
3	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worms	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 glow	punct
5	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Were	nsubj
6	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 worms	acl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 mid	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 mid	advmod
9	mid	mid	X	_	6 lit	obl:agent
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the glow worms						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lit	participle		the glow worms 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

They shone, like tiny lamps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shone	nsubj
2	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lamps	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 lamps	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lamps	amod
6	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	They					like tiny lamps	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were lit, like green fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lit	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lit	aux:pass
3	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fire	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fire	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		They				like green fire	tree rules

Option 3

They were lit up, glowing like green fire in the grass all night long

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lit	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lit	aux:pass
3	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 lit	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 glowing	punct
6	glowing	glow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lit	advcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glowing	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 grass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grass	det
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 lit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit up	past · passive		They		the grass	night	long property	tree rules
2	glow	gerund						like green fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They were super bright, lit like green fire scattered through the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bright	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	cop
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 bright	advmod
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct
6	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bright	conj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	obl
10	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fire	acl
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 grass	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grass	det
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			bright, super property	tree rules
2	lit	participle	They not said here			like green fire	tree rules
3	scatter	participle		green fire not said here	the grass		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through grass=Destination

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