Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…

Dude, the cherries were lit, weren't they?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: lit, not be · To what, where: Dude, cherries

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cherries	det
4	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lit	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	aux:pass
6	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 they	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 they	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 they	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lit	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		Dude					tree rules
2	not is a	past		cherries = cherry					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

Gerda ate as many cherries as she chose, every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cherries	amod
5	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 chose	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chose	nsubj
8	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Gerda	many cherries			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cherry=Patient
2	choose	past	Gerda						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She tasted one and then went home

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 tasted	nsubj
2	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tasted	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 went	advmod
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tasted	conj
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past	She	one					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme one=Attribute
2	go	past	She not said here				then	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Gerda ate as many as she chose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 chose	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chose	nsubj
7	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Gerda	many					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
2	choose	past	Gerda						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Gerda picked only the ripe red ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 ones	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
5	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 picked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	Gerda	the ripe red ones					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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