Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, par…

Why did the grey wings go white?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grey wings · What happens: do, go

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 833 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, part 44: Inge is freed as a little bird, does good deeds all winter, and turns white» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wings	det
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wings	amod
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	go	present	the grey wings					white property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

The sun made them white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the sun	them = they				white property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They turned white once the crumbs were gone for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crumbs	det
6	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gone	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	cop
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 good	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They					white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the crumbs					for good; gone property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

After the last crumb was given, that's the glow-up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	6 given	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crumb	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crumb	amod
4	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux:pass
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 up	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 up	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 up	det
11	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 up	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 glow	punct
13	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		the last crumb					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	present	that	the glow up					tree rules

Option 4

The moon painted them white at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	nsubj
3	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 painted	obj
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 painted	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	the moon	them = they			night	white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination

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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