Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

bro, what did vertigo blow in rudy's face?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: blow

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blow	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 blow	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blow	aux
5	vertigo	vertigo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	compound
6	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 face	case
8	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 face	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 rudy	case
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 blow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past · do-support						in rudy's face; bro vocative	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Patient in face=Topic

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

a stinking green poisonous vapor from his mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vapor	det
2	stinking	stink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 vapor	nsubj
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vapor	amod
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vapor	amod
5	vapor	vapor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vapor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stink	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

burning sparks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sparks	amod
2	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

a thick cloud of poisonous vapor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloud	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloud	amod
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 vapor	case
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vapor	amod
6	vapor	vapor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cloud	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cloud			poisonous vapor					nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

poisonous vapor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 vapor	amod
2	vapor	vapor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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