Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells G…

wait, the blokes at the palace just froze up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, freeze up · To what, where: blokes, palace

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blokes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blokes	det
4	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wait	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 froze	advmod
9	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 froze	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the blokes		the palace			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location
2	freeze up	past	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Yeah, they could chatter like mad outside, but inside they went dumb and then they all ran off

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chatter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chatter	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chatter	aux
5	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 mad	case
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chatter	xcomp
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 went	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chatter	parataxis
14	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ran	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 ran	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ran	nsubj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 they	det
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	chatter	could	they		mad property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	they		dumb property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run off	past	they	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they could chatter like mad outside, but inside they went dumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chatter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chatter	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chatter	aux
5	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 mad	case
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chatter	xcomp
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 went	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chatter	conj
14	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chatter	could	they					mad property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	they					dumb property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they were chatty out front, then inside they just went silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 front	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 front	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 front	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 front	cop
5	chatty	chatty	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	7 front	advmod
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 front	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 went	advmod
10	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 went	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	front				out property	tree rules
2	go	past	they				then	silent property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they could chatter like mad outside on the steps, but inside the palace they went completely dumb and couldn't say a word

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chatter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chatter	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chatter	aux
5	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 mad	case
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chatter	obl
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 chatter	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 steps	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 steps	det
11	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chatter	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
14	inside	inside	ADP	_	16 palace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 palace	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chatter	parataxis
19	completely	completely	ADV	_	20 dumb	advmod
20	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 went	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 say	cc
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 say	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 say	advmod
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 word	det
26	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chatter	could	they			like mad; on the steps; outside property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on step=Location
2	go	past	steps = step		the palace	dumb property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside palace=Location
3	not say speech: assert	could	steps = step not said here	a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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