Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda lea…

peak, what did the Finland woman say about the strength of twelve men?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peak · What happens: do, say · To what, where: Finland woman, strength · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 peak	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 woman	compound
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 strength	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strength	det
11	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 men	nummod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 strength	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	peak	the Finland woman					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	peak	the strength of twelve men					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent strength=Topic

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

That it would help them all win the fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 help	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 win	advmod
7	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fight	det
9	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would	That	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
2	win	present	That not said here	the fight					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That it could help the girl escape from the Snow-queen's palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 help	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obj
7	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	14 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 queen	det
10	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 queen	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Snow	punct
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 palace	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 queen	case
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escape	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	could	That	the girl					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	escape	infinitive	the girl not said here			the Snow queen's palace			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That it wouldn't help much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 help	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	5 help	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	would	That						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

That it was quite useful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 useful	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 useful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 useful	advmod
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					useful property	tree rules

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