Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…

Why did the lads all go mute in the palace, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, go · To what, where: lads

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lads	det
4	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	mute	mute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mute	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 though	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the lads					tree rules
2	go	present						mute property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They were all struck dumb by the sight of the princess and her shining throne in the hall above

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 struck	advmod
4	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 struck	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sight	det
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sight	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 throne	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 throne	nmod:poss
14	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 throne	amod
15	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 princess	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obl
19	above	above	ADV	_	18 hall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past · passive	the sight of the princess and her shining throne	They	the hall	all, dumb property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sight			the princess and her shining throne			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The guards were too strict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guards	det
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 strict	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strict	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strict	advmod
5	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

They were too proud to speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 proud	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proud	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					proud property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their wits left them inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wits	nmod:poss
2	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Their wits	them = they				inside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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