Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca…
Was the old woman a proper baddie?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old woman
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woman | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 baddie | csubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 baddie | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 baddie | amod |
| 7 | baddie | baddie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 baddie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old woman | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, a witch but not wicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 witch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 wicked | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wicked | advmod |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witch | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, a witch but not wicked, she just wanted Gerda to stay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 wicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 witch | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nah | appos |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 wicked | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wicked | advmod |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 wanted | advmod |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wicked | advcl |
| 12 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | Gerda | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | Gerda not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, dead wicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wicked | amod |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, she were just a bit grumpy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 grumpy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grumpy | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grumpy | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 grumpy | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grumpy | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | a bit obl:unmarked; grumpy property | tree rules |
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