Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…

Did Gerda's tears do anything wild?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tears · What happens: do · To what, where: anything

This is test 8 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tears	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Gerda	case
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 do	obj
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anything	amod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	Gerda's tears	anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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

Yep, a big tree grew right there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 grew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	a big tree			there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nope, the roses all stayed buried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 roses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roses	det
4	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stayed	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the roses					all property	tree rules
2	bury	participle	the roses not said here						vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yep, a rose-bush came back up from the earth, fresh and red as ever

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bush	det
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bush	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 up	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fresh	punct
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 earth	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 red	cc
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fresh	conj
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 ever	case
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 fresh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	a rose bush			the earth			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, a rose-bush came back up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bush	det
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bush	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 up	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	a rose bush						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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