Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…

Yo, so the old lady pulled Gerda outta the river with a stick, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: pull · To what, where: Gerda outta

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 289 «Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old woman's garden asks the flowers about Kay» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 pulled	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	nsubj
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 outta	compound
9	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 stick	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stick	det
14	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pulled	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	7 pulled	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pulled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	the old lady	Gerda outta				with a stick	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent outta=Theme river=Result

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, she grabbed her crooked stick and pulled the boat in, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stick	nmod:poss
6	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stick	amod
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pulled	cc
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boat	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulled	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	9 pulled	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bro	punct
14	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	she	her crooked stick					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	pull in	past	she not said here	the boat					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme

Option 2

Nah, her bare hands, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hands	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hands	amod
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dude	punct
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hands	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she used a long crooked stick from the bank, though, dude

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stick	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
7	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 bank	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bank	det
11	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 though	punct
13	though	though	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dude	punct
15	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	she	a long crooked stick		the bank		dude obl; though property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, her crooked stick, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 stick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stick	nmod:poss
4	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stick	amod
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	conj

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

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