Test 4 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Mate, what did the demon's mirror do to the nice stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do · To what, where: mirror

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 978 «Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts, the mirror shatters, Kay and Gerda meet» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
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	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 demon	det
6	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mirror	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 demon	case
8	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 stuff	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stuff	det
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stuff	amod
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the demon's mirror					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Eventuality
2	do	present						to the nice stuff	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

it made it look burnt and grey

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grey	cc
7	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 burnt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	it					tree rules
2	look	infinitive						burnt property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

it made it look shrunk and rubbish to anyone who peeked in it

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	shrunk	shrunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rubbish	cc
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 made	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 peeked	nsubj
11	peeked	peek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 anyone	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 peeked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	it	to anyone	tree rules
2	look	infinitive			shrunk property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	peek	past			in rubbish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it made it look shrunk and rubbish

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	shrunk	shrunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rubbish	cc
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	it					tree rules
2	look	infinitive						shrunk property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

it made it look shrunk and rubbish, like it was rotten

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	shrunk	shrunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rubbish	cc
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rotten	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 rotten	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rotten	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rotten	cop
12	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	it		tree rules
2	look	infinitive			shrunk property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	rubbish		rotten property	tree rules

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