Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfarona…

Did the carbuncle light up like a big fire over the island?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do up · To what, where: carbuncle light, island

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
3	carbuncle	carbuncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 light	compound
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	1 Did	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 fire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fire	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 island	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 island	det
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do up	past		the carbuncle light		the island		like a big fire	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it glowed like fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 glowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glowed	nsubj
4	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 fire	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glowed	obl

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

Option 2

No, it glowed faintly like a candle in the window of a distant house

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 glowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 glowed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glowed	nsubj
4	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faintly	faintly	ADV	_	4 glowed	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 candle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 candle	det
8	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glowed	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glowed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 house	det
14	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 window	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past	it			the window of a distant house		like a candle; faintly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in window=Location

Option 3

Yes, it glowed like a huge fire over the whole island at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 glowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glowed	nsubj
4	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 fire	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fire	amod
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glowed	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 island	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 island	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 island	amod
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glowed	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 island	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past	it			the whole island at night		like a huge fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over island=Location

Option 4

Yes, it shone like a moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 shone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 moon	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	obl

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

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