Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

no cap, where did the tiny bits go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiny bits · What happens: go

This is test 2 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 go	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bits	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bits	amod
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the tiny bits						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Into	into	ADP	_	3 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

They blew all over town

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	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 over	advmod
4	over	over	ADV	_	2 blew	advmod
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	They	town				over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent town=Patient

Option 3

They zipped around the whole globe

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	2 zipped	nsubj
2	zipped	zip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	6 globe	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 globe	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 globe	amod
6	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 zipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zip	past	They			the whole globe			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They flew all over the world

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	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	They			the world		all property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Location

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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