Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…
Did the roses know where Kay was?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: roses, Kay · What happens: know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roses | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roses | det |
| 3 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 was | advmod |
| 6 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | the roses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | Kay | vn exist-47.1 «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
Nah, he was in the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 palace | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 palace | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | the palace | tree rules |
Option 2
Nope, he was off in a far city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 was | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 city | amod |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be off | past | he | a far city | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
Option 3
Nope, he was gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 gone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | gone property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he wasn't in the earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 earth | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 earth | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 earth | cop |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 earth | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | he | the earth | tree rules |
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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