Test 6 · ★ · Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow…

fr, why did the king get so mad at the feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: do, get · To what, where: king

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1724 «Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow girl and a fire boy grow up, and their meeting with the King ends in ruin for all three» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 mad	advmod
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 feast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feast	det
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mad	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the king					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
2	get	present	fr					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 fire kid's enormous heat and flames filling the entire hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kid	compound
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 kid	case
5	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heat	amod
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flames	cc
8	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heat	conj
9	filling	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heat	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hall	det
11	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hall	amod
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 filling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	gerund	the fire kid's enormous heat and flames not said here	the entire hall					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hall=Patient
2	heat		the fire kid						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The fire kid's sudden blazing heat that melted the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kid	compound
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 kid	case
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heat	amod
6	blazing	blazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heat	amod
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 melted	nsubj
9	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heat	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ice	det
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 melted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	the fire kid's sudden blazing heat	the ice					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result
2	heat		the fire kid						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Burning wine glasses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glasses	compound
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Burning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund		wine glasses					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glass=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The fire kid's heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kid	compound
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 kid	case
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat		the fire kid						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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