Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Who lit the do, the ants or the glow-worms?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: light · To what, where: do

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 lit	nsubj
2	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 do	det
4	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lit	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ants	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ants	det
7	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 worms	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 worms	det
10	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worms	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 glow	punct
12	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ants	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past		the do					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=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 · ← Mova's choice

The glow-worms lit it, six of them hanging from the burdock leaves all night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 worms	det
2	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worms	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 glow	punct
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lit	nsubj
5	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 six	punct
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lit	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 six	nmod
11	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 leaves	csubj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 burdock	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 burdock	det
14	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hanging	obl
15	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lit	parataxis
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	the glow worms	it			six of them obl	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	hang	gerund			the burdock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	present	hanging			night		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The ants, the gnats and the glow-worms all lit it together with their little lamps

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ants	det
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lit	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gnats	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gnats	det
5	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ants	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 worms	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 worms	det
8	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worms	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 glow	punct
10	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ants	conj
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 lit	advmod
12	lit	lit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lit	obj
14	together	together	ADV	_	12 lit	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 lamps	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lamps	nmod:poss
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lamps	amod
18	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	present	the ants and the gnats and the glow worms	it				with ants's little lamps; all, together property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Six glow-worms lit it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 worms	nummod
2	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worms	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 glow	punct
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lit	nsubj
5	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lit	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 lit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	past	Six glow worms	it					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 4

Four fireflies lit it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fireflies	nummod
2	fireflies	firefly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lit	nsubj
3	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	Four fireflies	it					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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