Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca…

Could Kay just jump off the big sledge?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: jump off · To what, where: big sledge

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1625 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is carried off by the Snow-queen, and Gerda finds the witch's garden» 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Kay	aux
2	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 jump	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 jump	advmod
4	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	8 sledge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sledge	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sledge	amod
8	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 jump	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	present	Kay	the big sledge					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sledge=Trajectory

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, it stuck on like glue and he couldn't even shout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 stuck	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 glue	case
7	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shout	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shout	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 shout	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 shout	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 shout	advmod
13	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stuck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick on	past	it					like glue	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	not shout speech: express	could	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it stuck on like glue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 stuck	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 glue	case
7	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick on	past	it					like glue	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah he could've, but he were too scared to try it, mate

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 've	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 've	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 've	aux
4	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scared	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 scared	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scared	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 scared	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 scared	advmod
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 've	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 try	mark
12	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 scared	csubj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 try	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 've	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive		it					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Yeah, he jumped off fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 jumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 jumped	compound:prt
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jumped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	past	he					fine property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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