Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

The windows were proper frozen, so what did the boy do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: freeze, do · To what, where: windows

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 windows	det
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	aux:pass
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 frozen	advmod
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frozen	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 frozen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · passive		the windows				properly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	do	past · do-support	the boy						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

scraped the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ice	det
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scraped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrape	past		the ice					vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

breathed on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 breathed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	participle						on them = they	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination

Option 3

waited for the frost to melt in sunshine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 frost	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frost	det
4	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 waited	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 melt	mark
6	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 waited	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 sunshine	case
8	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past						for the frost	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	melt	to-infinitive				sunshine			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

scraped the frost off with his coat sleeve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frost	det
3	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scraped	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 scraped	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 sleeve	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sleeve	nmod:poss
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleeve	compound
8	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scraped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrape off	past		the frost				with his coat sleeve	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frost=Patient with sleeve=Instrument

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