Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is ca…

Lol, so the driver just nodded at him the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: driver · What happens: nod

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 nodded	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 driver	det
5	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nodded	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 nodded	advmod
7	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nodded	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nodded	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 nodded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	the driver				time	at him = he	vn wink-40.3.1 «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

Yep, he nodded back at her like they had been mates for ages and ages

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 nodded	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 mates	case
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mates	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mates	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 mates	cop
12	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nodded	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ages	case
14	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mates	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ages	cc
16	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mates	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod back	past	he					at her = she	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past · perfect	they				for ages	like mates and ages	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he just kept nodding back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nodding	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 nodding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	nod back	gerund	he not said here						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, like they knew each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 knew	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 knew	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	they	each					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, like they were mates already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 mates	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 mates	case
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mates	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mates	cop
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	already	already	ADV	_	6 mates	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					like mates	tree rules

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