Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of…

so the castle at Bordingborg, what happened to it at sunrise?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: castle · What happens: happen · To what, where: it

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 307 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of Danish towns and falls asleep» 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	_	8 happened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castle	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Bordingborg	case
5	Bordingborg	Bordingborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 castle	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 happened	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 happened	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 sunrise	case
12	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the castle at Bordingborg		it		sunrise		vn occur-48.3-1 «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

it dissolved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dissolved	nsubj
2	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	participle	it						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

it sank slowly into the sea below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 sank	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 sea	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	it			the sea		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

it crumbled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crumbled	nsubj
2	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crumble	past	it						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

the walls turned into a cloud and blew away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 walls	det
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 cloud	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blew	cc
8	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 blew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the walls			a cloud			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cloud=Trajectory
2	blow away	past	the walls not said here					away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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