Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…

did the kids use their hot pennies for something, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids · What happens: use · To what, where: hot pennies

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1624 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kids	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kids	det
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pennies	nmod:poss
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pennies	amod
7	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 something	case
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 use	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	4 use	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	the kids	kids's hot pennies				for something	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent penny=Theme for something=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

they melted round holes in the frost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 holes	amod
4	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 melted	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 frost	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 frost	det
7	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	they	round holes		the frost			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result

Option 2

they melted their pennies on the stove and then used the warm coins to frost the window

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pennies	nmod:poss
4	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 melted	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stove	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stove	det
7	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melted	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 used	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 used	advmod
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 melted	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coins	det
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 coins	amod
13	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 used	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 frost	mark
15	frost	frost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 window	det
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 frost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	melt	past	they	their pennies	the stove		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient penny=Result
2	use	past	they not said here	the warm coins		then	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Patient
3	frost	to-infinitive	they not said here	the window			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent window=Destination

Option 3

they put the hot pennies in their pockets and melted round holes in the frost on the window glass

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pennies	det
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pennies	amod
5	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pockets	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pockets	nmod:poss
8	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 holes	cc
10	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 holes	amod
11	round	round	ADP	_	12 holes	case
12	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pockets	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 frost	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 frost	det
15	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 glass	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 glass	det
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 glass	compound
19	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	they	the hot pennies		pennies's pockets and melted holes		in the frost; on the window glass	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme on glass=Destination
2	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

yeah, they melted spots in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 melted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 melted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 melted	nsubj
4	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 melted	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	they	spots		the snow			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient spot=Result

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