Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda lea…

innit, what was the robber-girl going to do with the reindeer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: innit, robber girl · What happens: be, go, do · To what, where: robber girl

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1627 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda leaves the robbers and rides a reindeer north» 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	innit	innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 girl	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 girl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 girl	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 girl	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
6	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 robber	punct
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 girl	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 reindeer	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reindeer	det
14	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 girl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	innit	the robber girl		tree rules
2	go	gerund	the robber girl not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	to-infinitive	the robber girl not said here		with the reindeer	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.

The options

Option 1

Milk him for the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Milk	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Milk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	milk	imperative	you not said here	him = he			day		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Set him free to run north toward Lapland and never return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Set	obj
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Set	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 free	advcl
6	north	north	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	toward	toward	ADP	_	8 Lapland	case
8	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 return	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 return	advmod
11	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Set	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	imperative	you not said here	him = he		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
2	run	to-infinitive	you not said here		Lapland	north property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward lapland=Trajectory
3	not return	infinitive	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Set him free to run north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Set	obj
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Set	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 free	advcl
6	north	north	ADV	_	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	imperative	you not said here	him = he				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
2	run	to-infinitive	you not said here					north property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Set him free to run north so he could find his own herd again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Set	obj
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Set	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 free	advcl
6	north	north	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 find	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 find	aux
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Set	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 herd	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 herd	amod
13	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	10 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	imperative	you not said here	him = he		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
2	run	to-infinitive	you not said here			north property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	could	he	his own herd	again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Topic

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