Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

deadass, what made Kay mean to Gerda?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: make, mean · To what, where: Kay, Gerda

This is test 13 · ★ 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Gerda	case
8	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mean	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		Kay				deadass vocative	tree rules
2	mean	infinitive	Kay not said here		Gerda				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to gerda=Attribute

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 shard in his eye and chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shard	det
2	shard	shard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 eye	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eye	nmod:poss
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shard	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 chest	cc
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eye	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The glass in his eye and heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 eye	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eye	nmod:poss
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 heart	cc
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eye	conj

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

Option 3

The glass in his eye and heart, which made him see everything as ugly and mean

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 eye	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eye	nmod:poss
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 heart	cc
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eye	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 see	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 ugly	case
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 see	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mean	cc
17	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ugly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the glass in glass's eye and heart	him = he					tree rules
2	see	infinitive	him = he not said here	everything				as ugly	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus as ugly=Attribute

Option 4

The glass in his eye and heart that the sprites had dropped from the sky

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 eye	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eye	nmod:poss
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 heart	cc
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eye	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 dropped	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sprites	det
10	sprites	sprite	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dropped	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dropped	aux
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 glass	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 sky	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sky	det
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · perfect · passive	the glass in his eye and heart not said here	the sprites		the sky			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from sky=Destination

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