Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

fr, why couldn't most people have a big garden?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: most people · What happens: not have · To what, where: big garden

This is test 4 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 have	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 have	advmod
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 garden	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 garden	amod
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	could	most people	a big garden					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=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

Too many houses and people crammed into the town with no room left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 houses	amod
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crammed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 people	cc
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 houses	conj
6	crammed	cram	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crammed	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crammed	obl
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 room	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cram	past	many houses and people			the town		with no room	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into town=Destination
2	leave	participle		no room not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Too many shops and roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shops	amod
3	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roads	cc
5	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shops	conj

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

Option 3

Too many houses and people in one tiny town with barely any space to dig

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 houses	amod
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 people	cc
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 houses	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 town	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 town	nummod
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 space	case
11	barely	barely	ADV	_	13 space	advmod
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 space	det
13	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 town	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 dig	mark
15	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 houses	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	to-infinitive							vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Too many houses and people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 houses	amod
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 people	cc
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 houses	conj

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

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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