Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…

Yo, did the Lapland lady have actual paper or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lapland lady · What happens: do, have · To what, where: actual paper

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 293 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda gets help in Finland, then walks on alone among living snowflakes» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lady	compound
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 paper	amod
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 paper	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	have	present	the Lapland lady	actual paper					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient

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

No, just a fish and some ink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fish	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 fish	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ink	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 ink	det
8	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, so she wrote on a dried fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wrote	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 wrote	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 fish	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fish	det
8	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fish	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	she					on a dried fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

No, she had no paper so she wrote the message on a dried fish skin

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrote	advcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 paper	det
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 wrote	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wrote	nsubj
9	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 message	det
11	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrote	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 skin	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 skin	det
14	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 fish	amod
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skin	compound
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 message	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	she	no paper		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient
2	write	past	she	the message	a fish skin	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme on skin=Destination
3	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, she had none at all so she wrote the whole message on a fish she had dried

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 none	nmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 wrote	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrote	nsubj
10	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 message	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 message	amod
13	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrote	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 fish	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fish	det
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 message	nmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dried	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dried	aux
19	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 fish	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	none	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
2	write	past	she	the whole message		on a fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme on fish=Destination
3	dry	past · perfect	fish	a fish not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fish=Result

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