Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 2…

yo, why did they burn tails in the fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: burn · To what, where: tails, fire

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 990 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 201: the elves' glittering maypole and feast, the violet staff and noisy kitchen, then the second mouse sets out to become a poet» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 burn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 burn	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burn	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 burn	nsubj
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burn	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burn	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · do-support	they	tails		the fire			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=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 perfume was too strong and it stank up the whole place, so he wanted burning

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 perfume	det
2	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stank	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stank	nsubj
8	stank	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 stank	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 place	amod
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stank	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 wanted	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	parataxis
17	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the perfume		strong property	tree rules
2	stink up	past	perfume	the whole place		tree rules
3	want	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	burn not said to happen	gerund	he not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the perfume was too strong, it stank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 perfume	det
2	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stank	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stank	nsubj
8	stank	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the perfume					strong property	tree rules
2	stink	past	perfume						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the violet perfume was too strong, it stank so bad the mice wanted burning smell instead

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 perfume	det
2	violet	violet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 perfume	amod
3	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stank	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stank	nsubj
9	stank	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	advcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 bad	advmod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stank	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mice	det
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	parataxis
15	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 smell	amod
16	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	obj
17	instead	instead	ADV	_	14 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the violet perfume		strong property	tree rules
2	stink	past	perfume		bad property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	want	past	the mice	burning smell	instead property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot smell=Theme
4	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the smell of soup was too thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thick	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 soup	case
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thick	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 thick	advmod
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the smell of soup					thick property	tree rules
2	smell		soup						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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