Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

Ngl, what nearly happened to the verses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: happen

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 happened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 verses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 verses	det
8	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 happened	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Ngl					to the verses; nearly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

They were burnt to ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burnt	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burnt	aux:pass
3	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 ashes	case
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive		They				to ashes	tree rules

Option 2

They were lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		They					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Nothing happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They were torn into bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 torn	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 torn	aux:pass
3	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 bits	case
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 torn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	past · passive		They				into bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into bit=Result

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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