Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…

so basically he melted cuz it got warm outside, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, it · What happens: melt, get, innit

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1620 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs for a warm stove, freezes, and melts in the spring thaw» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 basically	advmod
2	basically	basically	ADV	_	4 melted	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 melted	nsubj
4	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cuz	cuz	SCONJ	_	7 got	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 melted	advcl
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp
9	outside	outside	ADV	_	8 warm	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 melted	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 melted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	melt	past	he	basically property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	get	past	it	warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	innit	infinitive	he not said here		tree rules

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

nah, the dog ate him up quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 ate	compound:prt
8	quick	quick	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	past	the dog	him = he				quick property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

yeah, it got warm and he dripped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dripped	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dripped	nsubj
8	dripped	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	it					warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	drip	past	he						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the thaw came and he just went

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thaw	det
4	thaw	thaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the thaw						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	thaw						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he just went

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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