Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…

what's the bit about the girl singing, is it, like, the happy ending?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bit · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 singing	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 singing	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 singing	compound
8	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 what	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ending	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	17 ending	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ending	det
16	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ending	amod
17	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the bit about the girl singing					like the happy ending	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

yeah, it's all about spring coming and the snowman being totally forgotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 coming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 coming	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 coming	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 spring	case
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	obl
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 forgotten	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 snowman	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snowman	det
11	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	conj
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 forgotten	aux:pass
13	totally	totally	ADV	_	14 forgotten	advmod
14	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	it				spring	all property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget	gerund · passive						totally property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she's singing a sad song about the snowman melting in the yard

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 singing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 singing	aux
5	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 song	det
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 song	amod
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 singing	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 snowman	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snowman	det
11	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 song	nmod
12	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 snowman	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 yard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 yard	det
15	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 melting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · progressive	she	a sad song				about the snowman	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	melt	gerund	the snowman not said here					in the yard	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it's all about spring coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 spring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spring	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spring	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 spring	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 spring	case
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spring	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it				about spring	all property	tree rules
2	come	gerund	spring not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, she's singing about winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 singing	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 singing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 singing	aux
5	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · progressive	she				winter		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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