Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda lea…
bro, what did the wood-pigeons reckon they saw?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wood pigeons, pigeons · What happens: do, reckon, see
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 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 | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pigeons | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pigeons | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 wood | punct |
| 8 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reckon | nsubj |
| 9 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reckon | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | bro vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reckon | present | the wood pigeons | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | pigeons = pigeon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Kay sitting in the Snow-queen's sleigh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Kay | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sleigh | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 5 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 queen | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Snow | punct |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleigh | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 9 | sleigh | sleigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sitting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | Kay not said here | the Snow queen's sleigh | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sleigh=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Kay riding in the Snow-queen's carriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 riding | compound |
| 2 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 carriage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 5 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 queen | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Snow | punct |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 riding | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Kay riding in the Snow-queen's carriage with a girl from the north
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 riding | compound |
| 2 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 carriage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 5 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 queen | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Snow | punct |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 riding | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carriage | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 north | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 north | det |
| 15 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 girl | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Kay riding in the Snow-queen's carriage and waving to the robber-girl
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 riding | compound |
| 2 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 carriage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 5 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 queen | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Snow | punct |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 riding | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 waving | cc |
| 11 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 riding | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 14 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 girl | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 robber | punct |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | the robber girl | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient |
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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