Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…

Yo, how did the palace end up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: palace · What happens: end up

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 end	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 end	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 end	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	past · do-support	the palace						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

It turned to glass sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 sand	case
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sand	compound
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It			glass sand			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to sand=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It exploded into splinters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 exploded	nsubj
2	exploded	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 splinters	case
4	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 exploded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	past	It			splinters			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It exploded into a thousand tiny splinters and fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 exploded	nsubj
2	exploded	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 splinters	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thousand	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 splinters	nummod
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 splinters	amod
7	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 exploded	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 exploded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	past	It			thousand tiny splinters			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It melted into the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melted	obl

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