Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow-Man, : a snow-man longs f…

is the title actually about a snowman who's into a lady, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: title · What happens: be · To what, where: title

This is test 9 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 title	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 title	det
3	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	12 lady	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 snowman	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 snowman	det
7	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lady	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lady	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lady	cop
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 lady	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 title	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nah	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 nah	cc
15	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 title	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 title	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the title					tree rules
2	is	present	the title					into a lady; about a snowman; actually property	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

nah, it's about a girl and a sled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 girl	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 girl	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 girl	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sled	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sled	det
10	sled	sled	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a girl and a sled				about property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, he thinks the stove is a lovely lady and the dog is his mate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thinks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinks	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinks	nsubj
4	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stove	det
6	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lady	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lady	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lady	det
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinks	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mate	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mate	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mate	cop
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mate	nmod:poss
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lady	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the stove	a lovely lady and dog's mate	tree rules
3	is a	present	the dog	dog's mate	tree rules

Option 3

yeah, he's into a warm kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 kitchen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kitchen	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kitchen	cop
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kitchen	amod
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			a warm kitchen			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he thinks the stove's a lovely lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thinks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinks	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinks	nsubj
4	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stove	det
6	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lady	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lady	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lady	det
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the stove	a lovely lady					tree rules

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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