Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the…

Real talk, what happened to the clouds the gnome made?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: happen, make · To what, where: gnome

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1252 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the princess tricks the gnome and escapes» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 clouds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 happened	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gnome	det
10	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clouds	conj
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gnome	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Real talk					to the clouds and the gnome	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	participle		the gnome not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

they turned to fog

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fog	mark
4	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they	fog					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they rained down and melted into 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	2 rained	nsubj
2	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 rained	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 melted	cc
5	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rained	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain down	past	they						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	melt	participle	they not said here			the grass			vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into grass=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they melted into mist

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 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 mist	case
4	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	they			mist			vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into mist=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they melted into soft mist over the field

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 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 mist	case
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mist	amod
5	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melted	obl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 field	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	they			soft mist		over the field	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into mist=Product

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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