Test 4 · ★ · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…

so what happened to the ice, like, in the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen · To what, where: end

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 ice	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ice	det
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	3 happened	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 end	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past					in the end	to the ice	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in end=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

everyone skated off safely to the village shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
2	skated	skate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 everyone	acl
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 skated	compound:prt
4	safely	safely	ADV	_	2 skated	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shore	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shore	compound
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skate off	participle				the village shore		safely property	vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it broke into a thousand bits

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 bits	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thousand	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bits	nummod
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl

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

Option 3

the angel carried the whole frozen lake up into the clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 angel	det
2	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lake	amod
6	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lake	amod
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
8	up	up	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 clouds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clouds	det
11	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the angel	the whole frozen lake		the clouds			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Theme
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

the skaters all got away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skaters	det
2	skaters	skater	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	past	the skaters					all, away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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