Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…
Kay strolled in dead cool, didn't he? What did he say to the footmen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: stroll, not do, say · To what, where: Kay, dead cool, footmen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Kay strolled in dead cool, didn't he?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 did | nsubj |
| 2 | strolled | stroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Kay | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cool | case |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cool | amod |
| 5 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 strolled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kay | punct |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 did | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll | participle | Kay not said here | dead cool | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cool=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not do | past | Kay | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 say to the footmen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 footmen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 footmen | det |
| 7 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | Kay | the footmen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to footman=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
Looked dull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Looked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | dull property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
That standing looked a bit dull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 standing | det |
| 2 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dull | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | that standing | dull property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Very dull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 dull | advmod |
| 2 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
That standing about looked dull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 standing | nsubj |
| 2 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 4 looked | mark |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 standing | advcl |
| 5 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | That | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | participle | That not said here | dull property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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