Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca…

What was the old woman's stick for?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: stick · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stick	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 woman	case
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	7 stick	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old woman's stick						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

Holding her up when she walked through the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 walked	advcl
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Holding	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Holding	compound:prt
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 walked	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	gerund	she not said here	her = she					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	walk	past	she			the garden			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Holding her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Holding	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Holding	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	gerund		her = she					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

Option 3

Scaring the birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scaring	scare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scaring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	gerund		the birds					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

Option 4

Digging the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soil	det
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Digging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund		the soil					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent soil=Theme

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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