Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

Lol, what did the stepmum's hair do when she ran out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, run out · To what, where: hair

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stepmum	det
6	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hair	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 stepmum	case
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 ran	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 ran	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the stepmum's hair	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality
2	do	present			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run out	past	she		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

stood up straight like the flames of a burning house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 stood	compound:prt
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 flames	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 flames	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flames	det
6	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 stood	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
9	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flames	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stand up	past		like the flames of a burning house	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burn	gerund			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flame		a burning house		nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

flew up like smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 flew	compound:prt
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 smoke	case
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past						like smoke	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

stood up like fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 stood	compound:prt
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 fire	case
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past						like fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

stood up like fire in the wind and sparks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 stood	compound:prt
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 fire	case
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stood	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stood	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sparks	cc
9	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past				the wind and sparks		like fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wind=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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