Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is ca…

What were the sparrows on about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: sparrows

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 sparrows	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sparrows	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sparrows	det
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 about	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	4 sparrows	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sparrows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sparrows					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 · ✓ the right answer

Here we are, here we are!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Here	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Here	advmod
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Here	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	we			here		here property	tree rules

Option 2

Hello, we are sparrows, chirp!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 sparrows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hello	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sparrows	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sparrows	cop
5	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chirp	punct
7	chirp	chirp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sparrows	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 sparrows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	we	sparrows and chirp					tree rules

Option 3

Come and see, come and see!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 see	cc
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	infinitive		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	infinitive		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Here we are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Here	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	we					here property	tree rules

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.

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