Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…
So he went all gooey and turned into a heart?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: go, turn · To what, where: heart
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1747 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71: the soldier falls out of the window, sails in a paper boat, is swallowed by a fish, and melts in the stove» 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 gooey | advmod |
| 5 | gooey | gooey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 turned | cc |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 heart | det |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | gooey property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | he not said here | a heart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into heart=Trajectory |
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, he melted into a little lump shaped like a heart, dead romantic stuff, honestly
The tree, 15 words
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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 melted | nsubj |
| 4 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 lump | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lump | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lump | amod |
| 8 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melted | obl |
| 9 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lump | acl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 heart | det |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stuff | punct |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stuff | amod |
| 15 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stuff | amod |
| 16 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heart | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 honestly | punct |
| 18 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 4 melted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | past | he | a little lump | honestly property | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into lump=Product | |||
| 2 | shape | participle | a little lump not said here | like a heart and dead romantic stuff | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a little lump, dead romantic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lump | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lump | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lump | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lump | amod |
| 5 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lump | punct |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 romantic | amod |
| 8 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lump | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he went all gooey and turned into a little tin heart which was well romantic, bruv
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 gooey | advmod |
| 6 | gooey | gooey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 turned | cc |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | amod |
| 12 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | compound |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 romantic | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 romantic | cop |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 romantic | advmod |
| 17 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bruv | punct |
| 19 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | bruv | gooey property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | past | he not said here | a little tin heart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into heart=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a little tin heart | romantic, well property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, he just went a bit squishy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 squishy | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | squishy | squishy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | squishy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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