Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is ca…

So the old lady comes out, but who even is she?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady, lady · What happens: come out, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 288 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is carried off by the Snow Queen while Gerda drifts away by river» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 comes	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 comes	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 who	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 who	cc
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 comes	parataxis
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 is	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 who	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 who	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	the old lady						vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	lady						tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Someone leaning on a crooked stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Someone	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
5	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stick	amod
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	gerund				a crooked stick			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location

Option 2

Some old woman with a big hat who looks like she knows Kay's family

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knows	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 hat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hat	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hat	amod
7	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woman	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 looks	nsubj
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hat	acl:relcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 she	case
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looks	obl
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 family	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Kay	case
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a big hat					like woman	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	know	present	some old woman with a big hat	Kay's family					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A small girl with a basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 basket	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girl	nmod

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

Option 4

An old lady who has a garden full of roses and wooden soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lady	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lady	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 has	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 roses	case
10	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 soldiers	cc
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soldiers	amod
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a old lady	a garden				full property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient

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