Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

What did the Snow Man state regarding the sensation of the cold?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, regard, sense · To what, where: Man state, cold

This is exam question 4 of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 state	det
4	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Man	compound
5	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 state	compound
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sensation	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sensation	det
9	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cold	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cold	det
12	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sensation	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Man state	regard the sensation of the cold	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality
2	regard	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sense		the cold		nom sensation «cognition transitive»: of=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

It made his face melt slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	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 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melt	nsubj
5	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	ccomp
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It					slowly property	tree rules
2	melt	present	his face						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

That it made his whole body crackle like dry sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 made	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 crackle	nmod:poss
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crackle	amod
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crackle	compound
7	crackle	crackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 sticks	case
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sticks	amod
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	That	his whole body crackle				like dry sticks	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crackle=Product
2	crackle		his = he						nom crackle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That the cold made his whole body crackle and then go hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cold	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cold	det
3	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 crackle	nmod:poss
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crackle	amod
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crackle	compound
8	crackle	crackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	conj
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	that cold	cold's whole body crackle			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crackle=Product
2	go	infinitive	that cold not said here		then	hard property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	crackle		cold				nom crackle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That it made his body crackle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 made	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 crackle	nmod:poss
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crackle	compound
6	crackle	crackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	That	his body crackle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crackle=Product
2	crackle		his = he						nom crackle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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