Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…

What do the spectacles do to people in a crowd, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: spectacles · What happens: be, do · To what, where: crowd

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» 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	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spectacles	det
4	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 crowd	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crowd	det
10	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	1 What	case
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present							tree rules
2	do	present	the spectacles			a crowd		to people	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Make them look like cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 cards	case
5	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	them = they not said here					like cards	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Turn them into card houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turn	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 houses	case
4	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 houses	compound
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	them = they		card houses			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into house=Trajectory

Option 3

Make the people in the crowd look like playing cards stacked in a deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Make	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 crowd	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obl
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 playing	mark
9	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 look	advcl
10	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 playing	obj
11	stacked	stack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cards	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 deck	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 deck	det
14	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	the people	the crowd	tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the people not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	play	gerund	the people not said here	cards		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
4	stack	participle		cards not said here	a deck	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in deck=Destination

Option 4

Make them look like flat cards with their hearts shown on the front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 cards	case
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cards	amod
6	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hearts	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hearts	nmod:poss
9	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl
10	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hearts	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 front	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 front	det
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	them = they			tree rules
2	look	infinitive	them = they not said here			like flat cards; with cards's hearts	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	show	participle		cards's hearts not said here	the front		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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.

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