Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…

Wait, how'd she keep Gerda from bailing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, keep, bail · To what, where: Gerda

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 bailing	mark
9	bailing	bail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 keep	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	would	she	Gerda	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme
3	bail	gerund	she not said here		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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

She locked her in the little cottage and hid the key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 locked	nsubj
2	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 locked	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 cottage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cottage	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cottage	amod
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 locked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hid	cc
9	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 locked	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 key	det
11	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past	She	her = she		the little cottage			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	hide	past	She not said here	the key					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient

Option 2

She tied her to a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	She	her = she				to a tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to tree=Co-Patient

Option 3

She locked the cottage door and kept the key in her apron pocket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 locked	nsubj
2	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	compound
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 locked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 locked	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 key	det
9	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 pocket	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pocket	nmod:poss
12	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pocket	compound
13	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past	She	the cottage door					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	keep	past	She not said here	the key		her apron pocket			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent key=Theme in pocket=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She locked the door on her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 locked	nsubj
2	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 locked	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 locked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past	She	the door					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent door=Patient her=Result

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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