Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…

yo, so the snowman just wanted to get into the kitchen and cuddle the stove, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: snowman · What happens: want, get, cuddle · To what, where: kitchen, stove

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1620 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs for a warm stove, freezes, and melts in the spring thaw» 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	_	7 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 wanted	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snowman	det
5	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 wanted	advmod
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 kitchen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kitchen	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cuddle	cc
14	cuddle	cuddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 get	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stove	det
16	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cuddle	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
18	right	right	INTJ	_	7 wanted	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	the snowman			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the snowman not said here		the kitchen	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Destination
3	cuddle	infinitive	the snowman not said here	the stove		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stove=Co-Agent

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 right answer

yeah, he was totally crushing on that stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 crushing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crushing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crushing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crushing	aux
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 crushing	advmod
6	crushing	crush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stove	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 stove	det
9	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	past · progressive	he			that stove		totally property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, he just wanted a bit of heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 heat	case
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	a bit of heat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bit=Theme

Option 3

nah, just cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

yeah, he was dead keen on the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 dog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keen	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	dead keen				on the dog	tree rules

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