Test 8 · ★ · Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow…

so, what did the king end up as?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, end up

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 so	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADP	_	7 end	fixed
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	the king						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

Dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A frozen statue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 statue	det
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 statue	amod
3	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A burnt cinder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cinder	det
2	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cinder	amod
3	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A pile of ash and melted gold from his crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melted	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ash	case
4	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pile	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 melted	cc
6	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melted	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 crown	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 crown	nmod:poss
10	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	a pile of ash	gold		pile's crown			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient gold=Result
2	crown		pile						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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