Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda lea…
lol, did the reindeer actually know the way to Lapland?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: reindeer · What happens: know · To what, where: way
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 know | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lol | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reindeer | det |
| 5 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Lapland | case |
| 11 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · do-support | the reindeer | the way | to Lapland; actually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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
Yeah, he'd been there before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | he | before, there property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was born and bred up there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 born | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bred | cc |
| 7 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 born | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 bred | compound:prt |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 bred | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | he | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | breed up | participle | there | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, he was lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | he | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 4
Nah, he'd never been up there before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 there | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 there | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 there | cop |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 been | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 there | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | would | he | before, there property | tree rules |
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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