Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

wait, what did the swallow do when Tiny was frozen in that passage?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, freeze · To what, where: swallow, passage

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swallow	det
6	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frozen	nsubj:pass
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 frozen	aux
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 frozen	advmod
9	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 frozen	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frozen	aux:pass
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frozen	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	freeze	present · passive · do-support		the swallow	that passage	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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 right answer

she saved his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 life	nmod:poss
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	she	his life					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

Option 2

she carried him out of the cold passage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	8 passage	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 passage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 passage	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 passage	amod
8	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	she	him = he		the cold passage			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out passage=Initial_Location

Option 3

she saved his life by flying him to the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saved	nsubj
2	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 life	nmod:poss
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saved	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 flying	mark
6	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saved	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flying	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	she	his life					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
2	fly	gerund	she not said here	him = he		the sun			vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sun=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she carried him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 carried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry out	past	she	him = he					vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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