Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…

Did the old grandmother look chill, sitting in the court?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old grandmother · What happens: look, sit · To what, where: court

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandmother	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grandmother	amod
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 look	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 court	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 court	det
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the old grandmother					chill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	sit	gerund	the old grandmother not said here			the court			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in court=Location

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

No, she was standing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 standing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	she						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, she looked cold and sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sad	cc
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	she					cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, she sat in the spring sun on a little bench, knitting slowly

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sun	compound
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 bench	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bench	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bench	amod
12	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knitting	punct
14	knitting	knit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 knitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she			the spring sun		on a little bench	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
2	knit	gerund	she not said here					slowly property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she sat in the spring sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sun	compound
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she			the spring sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location

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