Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a…

why's the summer over so fast, the earth's all rock hard

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: summer · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 883 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a frozen swallow while the field-mouse plans her wedding to the mole» 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=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 summer	det
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
5	over	over	ADV	_	1 why	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 rock	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fast	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rock	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 earth	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 rock	det
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	ccomp
14	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 rock	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the summer					over, why property	tree rules

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 summer sun made the soil dry and very dusty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soil	det
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dusty	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 dusty	advmod
10	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dry	conj

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

Option 2

the sun dried it up

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 dried	nsubj
3	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dried	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 dried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry up	past	the sun	it					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

Option 3

the heat cooked the dirt into a hard crust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooked	nsubj
3	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dirt	det
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooked	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 crust	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crust	det
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crust	amod
9	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	the heat	the dirt				into a hard crust result	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient into crust=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the heat burned the ground till it was like stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burned	nsubj
3	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burned	obj
6	till	till	ADP	_	10 stone	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stone	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stone	cop
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 stone	case
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the heat	the ground					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
2	is	past	heat				till stone		tree rules

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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