Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…

did the hare get its moustache chopped or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare, moustache · What happens: get, chop

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1624 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 moustache	nmod:poss
6	moustache	moustache	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chopped	nsubj
7	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 chopped	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the hare						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	chop	past	hare's moustache						vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it got shaved clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shaved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shaved	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shaved	aux:pass
5	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shaved	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	past · passive		it				clean property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

nah, it kept them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

yeah, chopped right off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 chopped	punct
3	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 off	advmod
5	off	off	ADV	_	3 chopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past						off property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it got shaved clean but the barber cut its ears too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shaved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shaved	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shaved	aux:pass
5	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shaved	xcomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 barber	det
9	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	nsubj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shaved	conj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ears	nmod:poss
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	obj
13	too	too	ADV	_	10 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	past · passive		it				clean property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	cut	past	the barber	barber's ears					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Product

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