Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

Why did his flying trunk go up in smoke, like totally?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flying trunk · What happens: fly, go up

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 trunk	nmod:poss
4	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 trunk	amod
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 go	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 smoke	case
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 totally	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 totally	case
12	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go up	past · do-support	his flying trunk					in smoke; totally property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in smoke=Attribute

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

a spark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spark	det
2	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a spark from the fireworks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spark	det
2	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fireworks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fireworks	det
5	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spark	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a candle left burning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 candle	det
2	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 candle	acl
4	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		a candle not said here					tree rules
2	burn	gerund	a candle not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the Turkish lanterns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lanterns	det
2	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lanterns	amod
3	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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