Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

bro, why did Kay kick the box?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: kick · To what, where: box

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 287 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror shatters and a splinter sticks in Kay» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kick	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 kick	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kick	aux
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kick	nsubj
6	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 box	det
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kick	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past · do-support	Kay	the box				bro vocative	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent box=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

He said the roses were ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roses	det
4	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ugly	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ugly	cop
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the roses					ugly property	tree rules

Option 2

Bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

He said the roses were gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roses	det
4	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gross	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gross	cop
6	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the roses					gross property	tree rules

Option 4

They were ugly

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	3 ugly	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ugly	cop
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					ugly property	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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