Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in…

Ngl, what did the woodcutters do each autumn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, woodcutters · What happens: do

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
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	6 woodcutters	det
6	woodcutters	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 autumn	det
9	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the woodcutters				autumn		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Felled the biggest spruce trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Felled	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
3	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 trees	amod
4	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	compound
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Felled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fell	past		the biggest spruce trees					tree rules

Option 2

Went out each autumn and chopped down the very tallest trees around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Went	advmod
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 autumn	det
4	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Went	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chopped	cc
6	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Went	conj
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 chopped	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 tallest	advmod
10	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chopped	obj
12	around	around	ADV	_	6 chopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past					autumn	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chop down	past		the tallest trees				around property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 3

Chopped down the tallest trees and sold them in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	5 trees	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 trees	amod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chopped	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sold	cc
7	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Chopped	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sold	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop down	participle		the tallest trees					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	sell	past		trees = tree		town			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Chopped down the tallest trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	5 trees	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 trees	amod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop down	participle		the tallest trees					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

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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