Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…
so the snowman just stood there all night, mad cold, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snowman · What happens: stand
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snowman | det |
| 3 | snowman | snowman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cold | punct |
| 10 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cold | amod |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cold | punct |
| 13 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stood | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the snowman | there | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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
nah, he walked off to the gate lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 walked | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 gate | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 walked | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | past | he | to the gate | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
yeah, he stood still and froze a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 froze | cc |
| 7 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bit | det |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 froze | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | he | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | freeze | past | he not said here | a bit | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
yeah, mad cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cold | amod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he stood there dreaming and got cracked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | dreaming | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 9 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | he | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dream | gerund | he not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | he not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | crack | participle | he not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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