Test 5 · ★ · Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends…

How did the robber mum greet her girl in the morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robber mum · What happens: greet · To what, where: girl

This is test 5 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 greet	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 greet	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mum	det
4	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mum	compound
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greet	nsubj
6	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 girl	nmod:poss
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greet	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 morning	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greet	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 greet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	past · do-support	the robber mum		mum's girl		morning		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme

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

She pulled her hair and pinched her nose till it went red and blue and sore

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	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pinched	cc
6	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pinched	obj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pinched	advcl
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 went	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blue	cc
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sore	cc
16	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	past	She	her hair		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
2	pinch	past	She not said here	her nose		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
3	go	past	nose		red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She pinched her nose till it went red and blue and then laughed loudly at her

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	2 pinched	nsubj
2	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nose	nmod:poss
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinched	obj
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pinched	advcl
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blue	cc
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 laughed	advmod
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pinched	conj
14	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	13 laughed	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	She	her nose			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
2	go	past	nose			red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	laugh	past	She not said here		then	at her = she; loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She pinched her ear till it went red

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	2 pinched	nsubj
2	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ear	nmod:poss
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinched	obj
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pinched	advcl
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	She	her ear					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	go	past	ear					red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She pinched her nose till it went red and blue

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	2 pinched	nsubj
2	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nose	nmod:poss
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinched	obj
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pinched	advcl
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blue	cc
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	She	her nose					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
2	go	past	nose					red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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