Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda find…
did the Raven cry when they parted, fam?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Raven, they · What happens: cry, part · To what, where: fam
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 291 «Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda finds a Prince, then robbers seize her» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Raven | det |
| 3 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cry | nsubj |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 parted | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 parted | nsubj |
| 7 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fam | punct |
| 9 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parted | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past · do-support | the Raven | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | part | past | they | fam | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fam=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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he wept too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wept | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 wept | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | he | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
nah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, he sang
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sang | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | he | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
Option 4
no, he just flew off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 flew | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | he | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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