Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda lea…

ngl, what's the deal with the splinter in Kay's heart?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 splinter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 splinter	det
9	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 heart	case
11	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 heart	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Kay	case
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 splinter	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ngl	the deal				with the splinter in Kay's heart	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 · ✓ the right answer

It keeps him stuck with the Snow-queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	obj
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 queen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
7	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 queen	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Snow	punct
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	him = he				stuck property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It keeps him stuck with the Snow-queen and makes him see only ice

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	obj
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 queen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
7	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 queen	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Snow	punct
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 makes	cc
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 makes	obj
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 makes	xcomp
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 ice	advmod
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	him = he	stuck property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	make	present		him = he		tree rules
3	see	infinitive	him = he not said here	ice		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ice=Stimulus

Option 3

It keeps him loyal to the Snow-queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	obj
4	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 queen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
7	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 queen	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Snow	punct
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loyal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	him = he				loyal property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

It makes him cold towards Gerda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 Gerda	case
6	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	him = he				towards Gerda; cold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product

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