Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

when they danced, what made the walls look proper special?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, walls · What happens: dance, make, look

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 danced	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 danced	nsubj
3	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 danced	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	ccomp
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 special	amod
11	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	dance	past	they		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past			tree rules
3	look	present	the walls	special property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

flowers sprang out, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sprang	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprang out	present	flowers					bruv vocative	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

flowers sprang out from the walls and the ceiling too, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sprang	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 walls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprang	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ceiling	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ceiling	det
9	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walls	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	2 sprang	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprang out	present	flowers			the walls and the ceiling			tree rules

Option 3

flowers sprang out all over the walls, bruv, it was wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sprang	compound:prt
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 walls	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprang	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wild	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wild	cop
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sprang	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprang out	present	flowers			the walls and bruv			tree rules
2	is	past	bruv					wild property	tree rules

Option 4

pictures popped out, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	popped	pop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 pictures	acl
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 popped	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pictures	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop out	participle		pictures and bruv not said here					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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