Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is ca…
Was Kay like a big brain or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Kay
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Kay | cop |
| 2 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 brain | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brain | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brain | amod |
| 6 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Kay | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 brain | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kay | like a big brain | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he could do sums in his head with fractions and times tables and all
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fractions | case |
| 11 | fractions | fraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tables | cc |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tables | compound |
| 14 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fractions | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 all | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 fractions | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | he | sums | his head | with fractions and times tables | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality |
Option 2
Yeah, he could do maths in his head quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | he | maths | his head | quickly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent math=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he could do sums in his head with fractions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fractions | case |
| 11 | fractions | fraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | he | sums | his head | with fractions | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality |
Option 4
Yeah, he could solve any multiplication and fraction sum in his head before anyone else even started
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 solve | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 solve | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 solve | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 solve | aux |
| 5 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 multiplication | det |
| 7 | multiplication | multiplication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 solve | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sum | cc |
| 9 | fraction | fraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sum | compound |
| 10 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 multiplication | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 solve | obl |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 started | mark |
| 15 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 started | nsubj |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 anyone | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 started | advmod |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 solve | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solve | could | he | any multiplication and fraction sum | his head | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent multiplication=Topic | |||
| 2 | start | participle | anyone | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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