Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends…

Did the Lapland house look nice, or was it kinda gross?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lapland house, house · What happens: look, be

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gross	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 gross	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gross	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gross	nsubj
11	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	12 gross	advmod
12	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the Lapland house					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	house					gross, kinda property	tree rules

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

It was miserable, with a roof down to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 miserable	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 miserable	cop
3	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roof	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 roof	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 roof	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miserable	obl
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 roof	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 down	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					with a roof; miserable property	tree rules

Option 2

It was miserable, with a roof down to the ground and a smoky hole in the middle of the floor

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 miserable	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 miserable	cop
3	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roof	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 roof	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 roof	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miserable	obl
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 roof	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 down	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hole	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hole	det
14	smoky	smoky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hole	amod
15	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roof	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 middle	det
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hole	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 floor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 floor	det
21	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					with a roof and a smoky hole in the middle of the floor; miserable property	tree rules

Option 3

It was miserable and dark, with a roof down to the ground and no windows at all anywhere

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 miserable	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 miserable	cop
3	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dark	cc
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 miserable	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 roof	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miserable	conj
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 roof	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 down	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 windows	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 windows	det
16	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 roof	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 windows	nmod
19	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 roof	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					miserable property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It looked nice, with a big stone chimney on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chimney	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 chimney	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chimney	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chimney	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chimney	compound
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 top	case
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chimney	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	It					with a big stone chimney on top; nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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