Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

Did the ostrich's wings get totally fried by the sun?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sun · What happens: fry · To what, where: wings

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fried	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ostrich	det
3	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wings	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 ostrich	case
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fried	nsubj:pass
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fried	aux:pass
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 fried	advmod
8	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fried	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fry	past · passive · do-support	the sun	the ostrich's wings				totally property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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

Yep, totally scorched and shrivelled, and then it fell to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 scorched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 scorched	advmod
4	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shrivelled	cc
6	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 scorched	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 fell	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scorched	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	participle			totally property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	shrivell	participle				tree rules
3	fall	past	it	then	to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yep, scorched and shrivelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 scorched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shrivelled	cc
5	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 scorched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	shrivell	participle							tree rules

Option 3

No, just a little singed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 singed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 singed	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 singed	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 singed	obl:unmarked
6	singed	singe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	singe	participle		a little					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nope, they got scorched and shrivelled but grew back the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 scorched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scorched	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scorched	aux:pass
5	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shrivelled	cc
7	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scorched	conj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 grew	cc
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scorched	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 grew	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	scorch	past · passive	they		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	shrivell	participle			tree rules
3	grow back	past		day	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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