Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…

Lowkey, what made the snowy path so awkward for those two people?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make · To what, where: snowy path

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1031 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 path	det
6	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 path	amod
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 awkward	advmod
9	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 people	case
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 people	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 people	nummod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 awkward	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the snowy path				Lowkey vocative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material path=Product

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

Both were carrying heavy loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 carrying	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carrying	aux
3	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loads	amod
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · progressive	Both	heavy loads					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme

Option 2

The snow was deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deep	cop
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the snow					deep property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The path was far too narrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 path	det
2	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 narrow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 narrow	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 narrow	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 narrow	advmod
6	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the path					far, narrow property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Neither wanted to step aside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 step	mark
4	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	aside	aside	ADV	_	4 step	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past						neither property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	step not said to happen	to-infinitive						aside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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