Test 6 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Did the glass break when it got too slippery?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: break · What happens: do, get · To what, where: glass break

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 break	det
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	compound
4	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 slippery	advmod
9	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the glass break					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Eventuality
2	get	past	break					slippery property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

yeah, it dropped and broke all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 broke	cc
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 over	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	6 broke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	it						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	break	past						over property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it fell and smashed everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smashed	cc
6	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 smashed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	smash	past						everywhere property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

nah, it slid off and stayed whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slid	nsubj
4	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 slid	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stayed	cc
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slid	conj
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide off	past	it						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	past						whole property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, it fell off the shelf and smashed everywhere on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 shelf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shelf	det
7	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smashed	cc
9	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 smashed	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 floor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	it	the shelf					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient shelf=Extent
2	smash	past				the floor		everywhere property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination

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