Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is ca…

Did Gerda just chuck her red trainers in the river?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gerda · What happens: chuck · To what, where: red trainers, her, river

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chuck	aux
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 chuck	advmod
4	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuck	obj
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trainers	amod
7	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chuck	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past · do-support	Gerda	red trainers	her = she	the river			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination trainer=Theme

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

Yeah, she wanted Kay to come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	Kay					tree rules
2	come back not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kay not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, to swap them for Kay back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swap	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 swap	mark
4	swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swap	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Kay	case
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swap	obl
8	back	back	ADV	_	4 swap	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	to-infinitive		them = they				for Kay	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme for kay=Co-Theme

Option 3

Yeah, she threw both her red shoes right in, hoping the river would bring him home again

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	both	both	CCONJ	_	8 shoes	cc:preconj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoes	nmod:poss
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 in	advmod
10	in	in	ADV	_	4 threw	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hoping	punct
12	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 threw	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bring	aux
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hoping	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bring	obj
18	home	home	ADV	_	16 bring	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	she	her red shoes				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	hope	gerund	she not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	bring	would	the river		him = he	again	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 4

Yeah, she threw them in the river so the water would bring Kay back to her

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 bring	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bring	aux
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 threw	advcl
14	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	she	them = they		the river			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in river=Destination
2	bring back	would	the water	Kay	Kay				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kay=Theme to she=Destination

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