Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mothe…

why did the lake want her eyes, like what's the deal?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lake · What happens: want, be · To what, where: eyes

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 995 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mother follows Death and pays a price» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lake	det
4	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deal	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 deal	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 deal	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 deal	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 deal	det
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the lake	lake's eyes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot eye=Theme
2	is	present						like the deal	tree rules

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

To make pearls out of them and to sell them in the markets of the far city

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 them	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sell	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sell	mark
9	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sell	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 markets	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 markets	det
13	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sell	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 city	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 city	det
16	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 city	amod
17	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 markets	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	pearls		out pearls = pearl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pearl=Product
2	sell	to-infinitive	pearls = pearl	the markets of the far city		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	market		the far city			nom market «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

To make pearls out of them, so that the lake can wear them as a crown forever

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 them	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wear	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 wear	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 wear	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wear	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wear	aux
13	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wear	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 crown	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 crown	det
17	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wear	obl
18	forever	forever	ADV	_	13 wear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		pearls				out pearls = pearl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pearl=Product
2	wear	can	the lake	pearls = pearl				as a crown; forever property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To make pearls out of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 them	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		pearls				out pearls = pearl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pearl=Product

Option 4

To freeze them solid there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 freeze	mark
2	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 freeze	obj
4	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 freeze	xcomp
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 freeze	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	to-infinitive		them = they		there		solid property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result

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