Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

wait, what did the snow lady do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, snow lady · What happens: wait, do

This is test 9 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lady	compound
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · do-support	the snow lady						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Waved with her arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waved	wave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 arm	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arm	nmod:poss
4	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	participle						with her arm	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Smiled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smiled	smile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Beckoned with her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beckoned	beckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 hand	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beckoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beckon	participle						with her hand	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Pointed at the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 boy	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pointed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	participle							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/287-pg1597-part14/t9/