Test 7 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart…

Mate, what made the palace start falling down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: palace · What happens: make, start, fall down

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1893 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart from the Ice Palace» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	nsubj
7	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	ccomp
8	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 start	xcomp
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 falling	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	make	past		Mate vocative	tree rules
2	start	present	the palace		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fall down	gerund	the palace not said here	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

The heat from their fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fires	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fires	nmod:poss
5	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire		their = they						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The sun on the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 walls	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 walls	det
5	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sun	nmod

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

Option 3

The heat from their fires and the magic melting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fires	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fires	nmod:poss
5	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heat	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 melting	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 melting	det
8	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 melting	amod
9	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fires	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire		their = they						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Their loud shouting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shouting	nmod:poss
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shouting	amod
3	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout		Their = they						nom shouting «communication intransitive»: 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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