Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

What did the matches do when the maid lit them, all sputtery?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: matches, maid · What happens: do, light · To what, where: matches

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 matches	det
4	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lit	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maid	det
8	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lit	nsubj
9	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lit	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sputtery	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sputtery	det
13	sputtery	sputtery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lit	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the matches			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	light	past	the maid	matches = match	all sputtery obl	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

blazed up then went out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blazed	blaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 blazed	compound:prt
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blaze up	participle							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go out	past					then	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

sputtered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sputtered	sputter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sputter	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

lit up the whole room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 lit	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 room	amod
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit up	participle		the whole room					tree rules

Option 4

blazed up very brightly, then all of them went out at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blazed	blaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 went	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 blazed	compound:prt
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 brightly	advmod
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	1 blazed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 went	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 went	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blaze up	participle	all not said here					brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go out	past	all				then	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/829-pg27200-part40/t4/