Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…

The princess was dead clever, yeah? How'd she pick her fella?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, pick · To what, where: fella

This is test 4 · ★ 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: The princess was dead clever, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clever	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clever	amod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 clever	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess					clever 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.

Sentence 2: How'd she pick her fella?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 pick	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pick	nsubj
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fella	nmod:poss
6	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	would	princess	princess's fella					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fella=Patient

The options

Option 1

Whoever spoke loudest in the hall got to marry her after the whole court had voted

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 spoke	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 marry	mark
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 got	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	obj
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 voted	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 court	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 court	amod
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 voted	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 voted	aux
16	voted	vote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 marry	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Whoever	loudest		tree rules
2	get	past	Whoever not said here		the hall	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	marry	to-infinitive	Whoever not said here	her = she		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	vote	past · perfect	the whole court			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Whoever bowed lowest won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 bowed	obj
4	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 lowest	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	Whoever	lowest					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent low=Topic
2	win	participle							vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Whoever could answer her riddle won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 answer	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	aux
3	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 riddle	nmod:poss
5	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	nsubj
6	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	could	Whoever	tree rules
2	win	past	her riddle	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	riddle		her = she	nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Whoever spoke loud enough won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loud	loud	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
5	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 spoke	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Whoever					enough, loud property	tree rules
2	win	participle	Whoever not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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