Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda lea…
bruv, was Gerda's ride in that coach mint or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bruv ride, coach mint
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bruv | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ride | cop |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Gerda | case |
| 6 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mint | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 mint | det |
| 9 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mint | compound |
| 10 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 mint | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ride | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gerda's bruv ride | that coach mint | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, it was proper gold and shining, mate, like the sun on a lake
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 gold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gold | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gold | cop |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gold | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shining | cc |
| 8 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gold | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sun | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 sun | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sun | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | proper gold and mate and the sun on a lake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, it was dead shiny and gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 shiny | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shiny | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shiny | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shiny | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shiny | amod |
| 6 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gold | cc |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shiny | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | shiny property | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, it was just a plain old cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 cart | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cart | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cart | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 cart | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cart | det |
| 7 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cart | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cart | amod |
| 9 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a plain old cart | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it was proper gold and shining
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 gold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gold | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gold | cop |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gold | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shining | cc |
| 8 | shining | shining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | proper gold and shining | tree rules |
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