Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…
That crow was well weird, wasn't he? What did he reckon about Kay?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crow · What happens: be, reckon
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: That crow was well weird, wasn't he?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 crow | det |
| 2 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weird | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weird | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 weird | advmod |
| 5 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 weird | punct |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weird | conj |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 he | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 weird | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that crow | weird, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | crow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: What did he reckon about Kay?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 reckon | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 Kay | case |
| 6 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | crow | about Kay | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He said Kay had forgotten Gerda
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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 forgotten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgotten | aux |
| 5 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 forgotten | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | He | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | Kay | Gerda | tree rules |
Option 2
He said Kay was in the palace
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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 palace | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | He | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Kay | the palace | tree rules |
Option 3
He said Kay had found a princess
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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | He | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | past · perfect · passive | Kay | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme princess=Attribute |
Option 4
He was a liar
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 liar | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 liar | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 liar | det |
| 4 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a liar | 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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