Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in…

Lol, why did the little fir-tree get mad at the kids?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: little fir tree · What happens: do, get

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1628 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in the ice palace and they walk home to summer» 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
7	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fir	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 get	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 kids	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kids	det
14	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mad	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the little fir tree					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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

They called it a little one and never once let it grow tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 once	advmod
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 let	advmod
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	They	it		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	let	infinitive	They not said here	it	once property	tree rules
3	grow	infinitive			tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They called it a little one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	They	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3

They shook its branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 branches	nmod:poss
4	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	They	its branches					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent branch=Patient

Option 4

They ignored it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	They	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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