Test 4 · ★ · Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then mel…

Was Snowflake, like, a total genius at learning stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Snowflake

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Snowflake	cop
2	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
4	like	like	INTJ	_	2 Snowflake	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 genius	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 genius	det
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 genius	amod
8	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snowflake	appos
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 stuff	case
10	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stuff	compound
11	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 genius	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Snowflake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Snowflake					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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, she learned songs fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 learned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learned	nsubj
4	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learned	obj
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 learned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	she	songs				fast property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic

Option 2

Nope, she struggled for weeks but then suddenly understood everything the village children taught her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 struggled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struggled	nsubj
4	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taught	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 weeks	case
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 struggled	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 understood	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 understood	advmod
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	10 understood	advmod
10	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taught	advcl
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 understood	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 children	compound
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 taught	nsubj
15	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taught	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	past	she			week		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	understand	past	the village children not said here	everything		then	suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	teach speech: other	past	the village children		her = she			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she got lessons in a moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she	lessons			moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lesson=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, she picked up every new song and dance lesson in a single moment

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 picked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 song	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 song	amod
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lesson	cc
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lesson	compound
11	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 song	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 moment	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 moment	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 moment	amod
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	she	every new song and dance lesson			moment		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic

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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