Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…

Bruv, why was Gerda so nervy on the stairs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gerda · What happens: be · To what, where: stairs

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1626 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda learns Kay is at a princess's palace and sneaks in, only to find the wrong boy» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 nervy	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 nervy	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nervy	cop
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 nervy	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 nervy	advmod
7	nervy	nervy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stairs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stairs	det
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nervy	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 nervy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Gerda			the stairs		Bruv vocative; nervy property	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

She heard a loud creak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 creak	det
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creak	amod
5	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	She	a loud creak					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer creak=Stimulus

Option 2

The stairs were creaking loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stairs	det
2	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 creaking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 creaking	aux
4	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 creaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creak	past · progressive	the stairs					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She felt like she was doing wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 doing	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 doing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 felt	advcl
7	wrong	wrong	ADV	_	6 doing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	She						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past · progressive	she					wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She was scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					scared property	tree rules

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