Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

dude, what did the grandma say about the white bees?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude, grandma · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grandma	det
6	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 bees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bees	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bees	amod
11	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	dude						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the grandma					about the white bees	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

She sleeps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sleeps	nsubj
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	She						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Bees fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Bees						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Their queen peeps in windows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 peeps	nmod:poss
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peeps	compound
3	peeps	peep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 windows	case
5	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 peeps	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peep		Their = they			windows			nom peep «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 4

Their queen looks in doors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 queen	nmod:poss
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 doors	case
5	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Their queen					in doors	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in door=Theme

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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