Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends…

What is up with Gerda when they stop at the house?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: be, stop · To what, where: house

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 292 «Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends Gerda north to Lapland on a reindeer» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Gerda	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Gerda	cop
3	up	up	ADV	_	5 Gerda	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Gerda	case
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stop	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 stop	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stop	nsubj
8	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with Gerda	tree rules
2	stop	present	they			the house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location

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

She is too chilled to say a word and her feet have turned blue with frost

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chilled	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chilled	aux:pass
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 chilled	advmod
4	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chilled	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turned	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turned	nsubj:pass
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 turned	aux
13	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 chilled	conj
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 turned	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 frost	case
16	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chill	present · passive	She		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	turn	present · perfect · passive	her feet	with frost; blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She is too chilled to say a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chilled	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chilled	aux:pass
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 chilled	advmod
4	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chilled	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	present · passive		She					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		a word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She is too chilled to say a word, so the old woman carries her inside the house

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chilled	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chilled	aux:pass
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 chilled	advmod
4	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chilled	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carries	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 carries	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carries	nsubj
14	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chilled	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carries	obj
16	inside	inside	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	chill	present · passive		She		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		a word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	carry	present	the old woman	her = she	the house	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

She is frozen and cannot walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 frozen	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frozen	aux:pass
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walk	cc
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 walk	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 walk	advmod
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 frozen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		She					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	not walk	can							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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