Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…
Mate, what was the princess sitting on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, princess · What happens: be, sit on · To what, where: princess
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 princess | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 princess | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 princess | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 princess | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sitting | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate and the princess | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit on | gerund | the princess not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A golden stool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stool | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stool | amod |
| 3 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A great carved throne of gold with rubies all around the arms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 throne | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 throne | amod |
| 3 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 throne | amod |
| 4 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throne | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rubies | case |
| 8 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 throne | nmod |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 arms | advmod |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 arms | det |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 throne | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A massive pearl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pearl | det |
| 2 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pearl | amod |
| 3 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A huge pearl the size of a hen's egg, set in silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pearl | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pearl | amod |
| 3 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 size | det |
| 5 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pearl | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 egg | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hen | det |
| 8 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 egg | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 hen | case |
| 10 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 size | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pearl | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 silver | case |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | a huge pearl not said here | silver | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in silver=Destination |
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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