Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

fr, what sad line did the canary sing about the snow?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: line, do · To what, where: canary sing

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 line	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 line	nsubj
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 line	amod
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	conj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sing	det
8	canary	canary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sing	amod
9	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 snow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sing	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	line		fr and sad line						tree rules
2	do	past	fr and sad line	the canary sing				about the snow	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality

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

That was a dreadful snowstorm over the hills and sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 snowstorm	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snowstorm	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snowstorm	det
4	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snowstorm	amod
5	snowstorm	snowstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snowstorm	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sea	cc
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hills	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a dreadful snowstorm		the hills and sea			tree rules

Option 2

That was a dreadful snowstorm, and the cold was deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 snowstorm	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snowstorm	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snowstorm	det
4	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snowstorm	amod
5	snowstorm	snowstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deep	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 deep	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cold	det
9	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deep	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 deep	cop
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snowstorm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a dreadful snowstorm					tree rules
2	is	past	the cold					deep property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That was a dreadful snowstorm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 snowstorm	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snowstorm	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snowstorm	det
4	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snowstorm	amod
5	snowstorm	snowstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a dreadful snowstorm					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The snow was white and deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 white	cop
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 deep	cc
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 white	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the snow					white property	tree rules
2	be		the snow not said here						tree rules

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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