Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends…

Where's the reindeer taking Gerda, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reindeer · What happens: be, take · To what, where: Gerda

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reindeer	det
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
5	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 reindeer	acl
6	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 real	case
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 taking	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the reindeer					where property	tree rules
2	take	gerund	the reindeer not said here		Gerda				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gerda=Destination

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

To Lapland, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Lapland	case
2	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lapland	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I		Lapland				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lapland, where the Snow Queen's summer-tent is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 where	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lapland	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
5	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Queen	compound
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tent	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Queen	case
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tent	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 summer	punct
10	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 where	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lapland					where property	tree rules

Option 3

Up north to Spitzbergen, near the Pole, I guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	2 north	advmod
2	north	north	ADV	_	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Spitzbergen	case
4	Spitzbergen	Spitzbergen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 north	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Pole	punct
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 Pole	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pole	det
8	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Spitzbergen	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 guess	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 guess	nsubj
11	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 north	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	I						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Just to the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 woods	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 woods	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woods	det
4	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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