Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…

honestly the dress sounds fire, a sunbeam dancing on ice, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dress, sunbeam · What happens: sound, dance · To what, where: fire, ice

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» 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 sounds	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dress	det
3	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	nsubj
4	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sunbeam	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sunbeam	det
8	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	obl
9	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sunbeam	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 ice	case
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dancing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sunbeam	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	4 sounds	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	the dress	fire				a sunbeam obl; honestly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Theme
2	dance	gerund	a sunbeam not said here			ice			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it glittered like crazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 glittered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 glittered	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glittered	nsubj
4	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 crazy	case
6	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glittered	obl

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

Option 2

Yeah, it was kinda plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 plain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 plain	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plain	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 plain	advmod
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it glittered like crazy all over, sewn with pearls and gold from the palace

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 glittered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glittered	nsubj
4	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 crazy	case
6	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glittered	obl
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 over	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	4 glittered	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sewn	punct
10	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 glittered	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 pearls	case
12	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sewn	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gold	cc
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pearls	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palace	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sewn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	past	it					like crazy; over property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sew	participle				the palace		with pearls and gold	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from palace=Material

Option 4

Nah, it looked quite dull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 dull	advmod
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					dull property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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