Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…

Okay, why'd the roses vanish, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: roses · What happens: vanish

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	7 vanish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 vanish	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 vanish	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 vanish	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roses	det
6	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 vanish	nsubj
7	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 vanish	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 vanish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	the roses						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

So Gerda wouldn't think about Kay or her home anymore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 Kay	case
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 home	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Kay	conj
11	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	5 think	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	would	Gerda					about Kay or Gerda's home; anymore property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about kay=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So Gerda wouldn't think about Kay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 Kay	case
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	would	Gerda					about Kay	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about kay=Topic

Option 3

Because she wanted Gerda to stay and forget the boy named Kay forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stay	mark
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 forget	cc
8	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stay	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forget	obj
11	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 boy	acl
12	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 named	xcomp
13	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	Gerda		tree rules
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	forget	infinitive	Gerda not said here	the boy	forever property	tree rules
4	name	participle		the boy not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

So Gerda would forget her home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 forget	advmod
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forget	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 home	nmod:poss
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	Gerda	Gerda's home					tree rules

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