Test 4 · ★ · Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends…

Was the reindeer Bac getting tickled with a knife every night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tickle · To what, where: reindeer Bac

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tickled	aux:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bac	det
3	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Bac	compound
4	Bac	bac	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tickled	nsubj:pass
5	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tickled	aux:pass
6	tickled	tickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 knife	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knife	det
9	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tickled	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tickled	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tickled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tickle	past · passive		the reindeer Bac			night	with a knife	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer with knife=Instrument

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

Yup, the girl did it and he hated it, but he never ran off until the rope was cut

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hated	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hated	nsubj
9	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hated	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 ran	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ran	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 ran	advmod
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 ran	compound:prt
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 cut	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rope	det
19	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cut	aux:pass
21	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the girl	Yup	Yup vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	hate	past	he	Yup		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	not run off	past	he			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cut	past · passive		the rope		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Yup, the girl did it every single night and the poor reindeer hated it so much

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hated	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reindeer	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 reindeer	amod
13	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hated	nsubj
14	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hated	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	14 hated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the girl	Yup			night	Yup vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	hate	past	the poor reindeer	Yup					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, she did it, he hated that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hated	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hated	nsubj
8	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	hate	past	he	that					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, the girl did it and he hated it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hated	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hated	nsubj
9	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the girl	Yup				Yup vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	hate	past	he	Yup					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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