Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…

what was the broomstick actually, like, the stuff he was made of?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: broomstick · What happens: be, make · To what, where: he

This is test 5 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 broomstick	det
4	broomstick	broomstick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	1 what	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stuff	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	10 stuff	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stuff	det
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	appos
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stuff	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 made	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the broomstick					actually property	tree rules
2	make	past · passive		he					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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

yeah, the broom was his spine and the snow was just a coat on top of it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 spine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spine	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 broom	det
4	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spine	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spine	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 spine	nmod:poss
7	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 coat	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snow	det
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coat	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 coat	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 coat	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coat	det
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spine	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 top	case
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coat	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the broom	his spine and a coat					tree rules
2	is a	past	the snow	a coat		top of broom			tree rules

Option 2

nah, it was a mop he was built on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 mop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mop	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mop	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mop	det
6	mop	mop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 built	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 built	aux:pass
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mop	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a mop					tree rules
2	build on	past · passive		he					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, it was the stove-raker that was in him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 raker	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 raker	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 raker	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 raker	det
6	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raker	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 stove	punct
8	raker	raker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 him	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 him	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 raker	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the stove raker					tree rules
2	is	past	that					in him = he	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, it was the snow he was made of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 snow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 snow	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snow	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 snow	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the snow					tree rules
2	make	past · passive		he					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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