Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells G…

did the summer just stop, like, all of a sudden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, stop

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 290 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells Gerda that Kay is living with a Princess» 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	5 stop	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 summer	det
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obl:unmarked
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 stop	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stop	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sudden	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sudden	det
12	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 all	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past					summer		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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

Yeah, it was autumn outside, though the garden had always been sunny, and it was cold there

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 autumn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 autumn	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 autumn	cop
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 autumn	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sunny	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 sunny	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sunny	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sunny	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 sunny	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 sunny	cop
14	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 autumn	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cold	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cold	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cold	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cold	cop
19	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sunny	conj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 cold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	autumn		outside property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	the garden			always, sunny property	tree rules
3	is	past	garden		there	cold property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, it was autumn outside, though the garden had always been sunny, and the leaves were all falling down on the road in the wind

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 autumn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 autumn	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 autumn	cop
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 autumn	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sunny	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 sunny	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sunny	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sunny	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 sunny	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 sunny	cop
14	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 autumn	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 falling	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 falling	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 leaves	det
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 falling	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 falling	aux
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 falling	advmod
21	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sunny	conj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 falling	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 road	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 falling	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 wind	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	autumn		outside property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	the garden			always, sunny property	tree rules
3	fall down	past · progressive	the leaves		the road	in the wind; all, down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was autumn outside, though the garden had always been sunny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 autumn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 autumn	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 autumn	cop
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 autumn	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sunny	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 sunny	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sunny	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sunny	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 sunny	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 sunny	cop
14	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 autumn	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	autumn				outside property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	the garden					always, sunny property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, outside it was autumn, but the garden had been sunny all along

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 autumn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 autumn	punct
3	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 autumn	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 autumn	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 autumn	cop
6	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sunny	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sunny	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sunny	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sunny	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 sunny	cop
13	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 autumn	conj
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 along	advmod
15	along	along	ADV	_	13 sunny	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					outside autumn	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	the garden					along, sunny property	tree rules

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