Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…

what's the gist then, one line?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: gist

This is test 12 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 gist	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gist	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gist	det
4	gist	gist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gist	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 line	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 line	nummod
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gist	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gist	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the gist and one line			then		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a snowman melts for love of a stove, and no one notices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snowman	det
2	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melts	nsubj
3	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 love	case
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melts	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 stove	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stove	det
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 love	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 notices	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 notices	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 notices	nsubj
13	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 melts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	melt	present	a snowman		for love of a stove	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	notice	present	no one			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	love			a stove		nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

a snowman falls for a stove and then melts away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snowman	det
2	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 stove	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stove	det
6	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 melts	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 melts	advmod
9	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 falls	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 melts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	a snowman					for a stove	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for stove=Theme
2	melt away	present	a snowman not said here				then	away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

he melts cuz it's warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 melts	nsubj
2	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cuz	cuz	SCONJ	_	6 warm	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 warm	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 warm	cop
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 melts	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	he						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	it					warm property	tree rules

Option 4

a dog warns a snowman and the spring comes round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warns	nsubj
3	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snowman	det
5	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warns	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 comes	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spring	det
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warns	conj
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	a dog	a snowman					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent snowman=Recipient
2	come round	present	the spring					round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1620-pg5615-part9/t12/