Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

Mad, what happened to her eyes after all that crying?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: all · What happens: happen, cry

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 crying	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 crying	nsubj
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 crying	nsubj
11	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to her eyes	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	gerund	all						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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

they froze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 froze	nsubj
2	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	they						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

they turned to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 stone	case
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they			stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they became two pearls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pearls	nummod
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	they	two pearls					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

they went all red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 red	advmod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they					red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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