Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…
His boots were mint, innit? What did they do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boots, mint · What happens: be, innit, do · To what, where: mint
This is test 7 · ★ 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: His boots were mint, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 boots | nmod:poss |
| 2 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mint | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mint | cop |
| 4 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 innit | punct |
| 6 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mint | acl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mint | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | His boots | mint | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | mint not said here | 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: What did they do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | boots = boot | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They squeaked
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 | 2 squeaked | nsubj |
| 2 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeak | past | They | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
They squeaked quite softly
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 | 2 squeaked | nsubj |
| 2 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 squeaked | advmod |
| 4 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 2 squeaked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeak | past | They | softly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
They clicked on the floor
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 | 2 clicked | nsubj |
| 2 | clicked | click | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | click | past | They | the floor | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They creaked loud as anything
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 | 2 creaked | nsubj |
| 2 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 creaked | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 anything | case |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 creaked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creak | past | They | as anything; loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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