Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…

What came out of the basilisks' mouths and ears?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: come out · To what, where: mouths

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	8 mouths	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 mouths	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 basilisks	det
6	basilisks	basilisk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mouths	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 basilisks	case
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ears	cc
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mouths	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past		the basilisks's mouths and ears					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result

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

Fire and smoke, proper flaming, bare nasty, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nasty	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 smoke	cc
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fire	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flaming	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flaming	amod
6	flaming	flaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fire	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nasty	punct
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nasty	amod
9	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	INTJ	_	9 nasty	discourse

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

Option 2

Sparks, bare heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heat	punct
3	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heat	amod
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sparks	conj

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

Option 3

Steam, proper hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hot	punct
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Steam	amod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fire, proper flaming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flaming	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flaming	amod
4	flaming	flaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fire	conj

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

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