Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends…

Did the robber girl just let the reindeer go, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reindeer · What happens: let, go · To what, where: reindeer

This is test 8 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girl	compound
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reindeer	det
8	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 let	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support		the reindeer					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the reindeer not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, she cut the rope and sent him off into the snowy woods without any food

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 sent	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 woods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woods	det
13	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woods	amod
14	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sent	obl
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 food	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 food	det
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	she	the rope					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product
2	send off	past	she not said here	him = he		the snowy woods		without any food	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she fed him and sent him home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
4	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sent	cc
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sent	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	7 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	she		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	send	past	she not said here	him = he				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she cut the rope and sent him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 sent	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	she	the rope					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product
2	send off	past	she not said here	him = he					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, she cut the rope and sent him off, then waved goodbye to him for ages

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 sent	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waved	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 waved	advmod
13	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
14	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waved	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 waved	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 ages	case
18	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	cut	past	she	the rope			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product
2	send off	past	she not said here	him = he			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	wave	past	she not said here	goodbye	him = he	for ages; then	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Theme to he=Recipient

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