Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

be real, what did Kay want to do to the Snow Queen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Kay · What happens: be, want, do

This is test 7 · ★ 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 Queen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
12	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Queen	compound
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here	real property	tree rules
2	want	past · do-support	Kay		tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	to the Snow Queen	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Drop her in the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Drop	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the fire			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in fire=Destination

Option 2

Melt her on the stove so she drips down into the ash and disappears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Melt	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stove	det
5	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melt	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 drips	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drips	nsubj
8	drips	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Melt	advcl
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 drips	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 ash	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ash	det
12	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drips	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 disappears	cc
14	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drips	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	melt	imperative	you not said here	her = she	the stove		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result
2	drip down	present	she		the ash	down property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ash=Location
3	disappear	present	she not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Melt her on the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Melt	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stove	det
5	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the stove			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result

Option 4

Melt her on the stove and then pour her out into the snowy yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Melt	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stove	det
5	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melt	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pour	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 pour	advmod
8	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Melt	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pour	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 pour	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 yard	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 yard	det
13	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 yard	amod
14	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the stove			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result
2	pour out	infinitive	you not said here	her = she			then	into the snowy yard	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into yard=Destination

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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