Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…
why did Kay go all weird on Gerda at the end?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: go · To what, where: Gerda
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 weird | advmod |
| 6 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 go | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Gerda | case |
| 8 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | Kay | Gerda | at the end | weird property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on gerda=Location |
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
he got a mad headache, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 headache | det |
| 4 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 headache | amod |
| 5 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 headache | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | a mad headache and innit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headache=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a splinter got in his eye and heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 splinter | det |
| 2 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eye | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eye | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 heart | cc |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eye | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | a splinter | splinter's eye and heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
he dropped his sledge on the ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dropped | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dropped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | he | his sledge | the ice | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme on ice=Destination |
Option 4
he was just tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | tired property | 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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