Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…

Bro, what did he do to make the trunk fly, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: make · To what, where: trunk fly

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fly	det
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fly	compound
11	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 then	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 make	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive · do-support	Bro	the trunk fly			then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fly=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

Pressed the lock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lock	det
3	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pressed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	participle		the lock					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He pressed the lock of the trunk and it lifted up, mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pressed	nsubj
2	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lock	det
4	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 trunk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trunk	det
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lock	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lifted	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lifted	nsubj
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pressed	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 lifted	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifted	vocative
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	He	the lock of the trunk					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme
2	lift up	past	lock					mate vocative	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Pulled the handle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past		the handle					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Theme

Option 4

He pressed the lock and then sat inside the trunk, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pressed	nsubj
2	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lock	det
4	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sat	advmod
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pressed	conj
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 trunk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trunk	det
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trunk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	He	the lock					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme
2	sit	past	He not said here			the trunk and bro	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside trunk=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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