Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…

what was the mirror thingy for, the hobgoblin's one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: mirror thingy

This is test 4 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 thingy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thingy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thingy	det
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thingy	compound
5	thingy	thingy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	5 thingy	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hobgoblin	det
9	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 hobgoblin	case
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thingy	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thingy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mirror thingy and the hobgoblin's one					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

making nice stuff look rubbish and making rubbish stuff look grand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 look	advcl
2	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stuff	amod
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 making	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 making	xcomp
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 making	cc
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 making	conj
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuff	compound
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	obj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	you not said here	nice stuff		tree rules
2	look	infinitive	nice stuff not said here	rubbish		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rubbish=Attribute
3	make	gerund	you not said here	rubbish stuff		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stuff=Product
4	look	imperative	you not said here		grand property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

making rubbish stuff look nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 look	advcl
2	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuff	compound
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 making	obj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	you not said here	rubbish stuff					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stuff=Product
2	look	imperative	you not said here					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

making nice stuff look rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 look	advcl
2	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stuff	amod
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 making	obj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	you not said here	nice stuff					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stuff=Product
2	look	imperative	you not said here	rubbish					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rubbish=Attribute

Option 4

showing people what's really inside them and their rotten hearts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 them	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 them	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 them	advmod
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 people	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hearts	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hearts	nmod:poss
10	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hearts	amod
11	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 them	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	showing people					inside people	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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