Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

how did the snowman feel about the stove, like honest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: snowman · What happens: feel

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snowman	det
4	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 stove	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stove	det
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 honest	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 honest	case
11	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the snowman					about the stove	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about stove=Location

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

he wanted to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 leave	mark
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he hated it deeply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	obj
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	2 hated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	he	it				deeply property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he wanted it so bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 bad	advmod
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	it				bad property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

he wanted it so bad he could feel the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 bad	advmod
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feel	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	aux
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heat	det
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	it				bad property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	feel	could	he	the heat					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme

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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