Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…

So what made the Councillor's whole magic thing stop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Councillor · What happens: make, stop · To what, where: whole magic thing stop

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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 made	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Councillor	det
5	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stop	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Councillor	case
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stop	amod
8	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stop	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	compound
10	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the Councillor's whole magic thing stop					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stop=Product
2	stop		the Councillor						nom stop «event 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 · ← Mova's choice

His coat got stuck under the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 coat	nmod:poss
2	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	His coat					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

His shoes came off under the table when he tried to creep out, and then the whole party laughed

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoes	nmod:poss
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 tried	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tried	nsubj
10	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 creep	mark
12	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tried	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 creep	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 laughed	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 laughed	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 party	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 party	amod
19	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laughed	nsubj
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	past	His shoes	the table		off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under table=Location
2	try	past	he				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	creep out not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	past	the whole party		then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

His hat fell off on the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hat	nmod:poss
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fell	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stairs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	His hat			the stairs			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His shoes came off under the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoes	nmod:poss
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	past	His shoes			the table		off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under table=Location

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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