Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends…

What were the northern-lights doing, like, in the sky?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: northern lights · What happens: do · To what, where: sky

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 292 «Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends Gerda north to Lapland on a reindeer» 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	7 doing	obj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lights	det
4	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lights	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 northern	punct
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	nsubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	7 doing	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sky	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sky	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sky	det
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the northern lights			the sky			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Shining very bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 bright	advmod
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shining	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund						bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Flickering like candles in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flickering	flicker	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 candles	case
3	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Flickering	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flickering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flicker	gerund				the sky		like candles	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location

Option 3

Flashing green like a big lantern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flashing	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 lantern	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lantern	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lantern	amod
6	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flashing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	gerund		green				like a big lantern	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Making a big "Ddsa!" sound like a sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sound	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Ddsa	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Ddsa	amod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Ddsa	punct
5	Ddsa	Ddsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Ddsa	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Ddsa	punct
8	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 sneeze	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sneeze	det
11	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		a big Ddsa					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ddsa=Product
2	sound	present	Making					like a sneeze	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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