Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

so what was Kay doing to people in the street?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: do · To what, where: street

This is test 12 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 doing	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
4	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 doing	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 street	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 street	det
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	Kay			the street		to people	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

Mocking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Mocking their silly walks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 walks	nmod:poss
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walks	amod
4	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mocking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	gerund		their silly walks					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme
2	walk		their = they						nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Copying their weird ways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ways	nmod:poss
3	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ways	amod
4	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Copying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	gerund		their weird ways					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

Option 4

Staring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	gerund							vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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