Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…
Gerda didn't half hope it was Kay, yeah? Which bed was she after?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gerda, hope · What happens: not half, be · To what, where: Kay
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Gerda didn't half hope it was Kay, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 half | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 half | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 half | advmod |
| 4 | half | half | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Kay | nsubj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Kay | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Kay | cop |
| 8 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 half | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 half | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 half | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 half | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not half | past · do-support | Gerda | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | hope | Kay | 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: Which bed was she after?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 after | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 after | cop |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 after | nsubj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 after | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The gold one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The red one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The bed in the corner, which was smaller and red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smaller | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 corner | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 corner | det |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bed | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smaller | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 smaller | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smaller | cop |
| 9 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 red | cc |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 smaller | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bed in the corner | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the bed in the corner not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
The white one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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