Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings…

What was the snow doing to their ride, then?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: snow, their · What happens: do, ride

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1799 «Grimm's Household Tales, Clever Hans, part 50: Hans rings the bells, outwits the headless dwarves, then rides off through snow» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ride	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ride	nmod:poss
8	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 doing	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the snow				then	to their ride	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ride		their = they						nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

It had blown into massive heaps across the lane and buried the wheels up to the axle

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blown	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blown	aux
3	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 heaps	case
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heaps	amod
6	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blown	obl
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 lane	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lane	det
9	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blown	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 buried	cc
11	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blown	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wheels	det
13	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 buried	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	11 buried	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 axle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 axle	det
17	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past · perfect · passive		It		massive heaps		across the lane	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into heap=Product
2	bury up	past		the wheels				to the axle	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme

Option 2

It had frozen into sheets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 frozen	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frozen	aux
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 sheets	case
5	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · perfect · passive		It		sheets			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 3

It had melted into puddles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 melted	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 melted	aux
3	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 puddles	case
5	puddles	puddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past · perfect	It			puddles			vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into puddle=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It had blown into massive heaps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blown	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blown	aux
3	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 heaps	case
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heaps	amod
6	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past · perfect · passive		It		massive heaps			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into heap=Product

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