Test 15 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, thr…

test: did the troll ever burn his fingers in the fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test · What happens: burn · To what, where: fingers, fire

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 1638 «Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, three lost sacks, one lesson he never learns» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 troll	det
5	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 burn	advmod
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fingers	nmod:poss
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burn	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · do-support	test	test's fingers		the fire	ever		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent finger=Theme

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

nope, they lit up and burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 lit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lit	nsubj
4	lit	lit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lit	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 burned	cc
7	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit up	present	they						tree rules
2	burn	participle	they not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nope, they lit up without burning at all, not even a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 lit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lit	nsubj
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lit	compound:prt
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 burning	mark
7	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 lit	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 burning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bit	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bit	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 bit	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	past	they	a bit					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	burn	gerund	they not said here			all			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nope, they lit up without burning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 lit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lit	nsubj
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lit	compound:prt
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 burning	mark
7	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 lit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	past	they						vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	burn	gerund	they not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nope, they just lit up without burning, like magic from the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 lit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lit	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 lit	advmod
5	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 lit	compound:prt
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 burning	mark
8	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 lit	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 magic	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 magic	case
11	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burning	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 fire	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	past	they						vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	burn	gerund	they not said here	magic		the fire			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent magic=Theme

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