Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…

proper wicked, the horse got new shoes while it was running, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: get, run · To what, where: new shoes

This is test 3 · ★ 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	proper	properly	ADV	_	2 wicked	advmod
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wicked	parataxis
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 running	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 running	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 running	aux
12	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 got	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 wicked	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the horse	new shoes					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus
2	run	past · progressive	horse						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

nah, they just fed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 fed	advmod
5	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	they	it					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

yeah, it was painted red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		it				red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the horse kept its old shoes and ran really slowly down the road

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoes	nmod:poss
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 slowly	advmod
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 ran	advmod
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 road	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 road	det
15	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the horse	horse's old shoes					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	run	past	the horse not said here			the road		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down road=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, mad, it did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	it						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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