Test 10 · ★ · Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then mel…

Lol, what did Ivan say when the snow kid blinked?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ivan, snow kid · What happens: say, blink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1637 «Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then melts at Midsummer» 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	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 blinked	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kid	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kid	compound
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blinked	nsubj
11	blinked	blink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 say	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Ivan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	blink	participle	the snow kid						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Am I mad, or is the thing bewitched?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 mad	nsubj
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 thing	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mad	conj
9	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 thing	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		mad property	tree rules
2	is a	present	I not said here	the thing		tree rules
3	bewitch	participle		the thing not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Am I dreaming, or is it real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dreaming	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dreaming	nsubj
3	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 real	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 real	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 real	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 real	nsubj
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dreaming	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dreaming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	present · progressive	I						vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					real property	tree rules

Option 3

Have I lost my wits, or has some witch put a spell on this odd little thing?

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wits	nmod:poss
5	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 has	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spell	det
13	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 thing	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 thing	nsubj
16	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lose	present	I	my wits		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Eventuality
2	have	present	I not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	put	past	some witch	a spell	odd little thing	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on thing=Destination

Option 4

Good heavens, Marie, has the snow figure just come alive in front of me?

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heavens	amod
2	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Marie	punct
4	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heavens	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 heavens	punct
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 figure	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 figure	compound
9	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 figure	ccomp
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 come	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 front	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Good heavens	the snow figure					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Patient
2	come	infinitive	Good heavens not said here			front of me		alive property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location

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