Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…
Okay, what were the angels holding, like for real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: angels · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: angels
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 angels | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angels | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 angels | det |
| 6 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 angels | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 real | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 real | case |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 real | case |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 holding | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 angels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the angels | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the angels not said here | like real | vn exist-47.1 «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
Lances and shields and banners and golden trumpets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 shields | cc |
| 3 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lances | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 banners | cc |
| 5 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lances | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 trumpets | cc |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trumpets | amod |
| 8 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lances | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Long lances, shining shields, and little silver bells for the march
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lances | amod |
| 2 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bells | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shields | punct |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 shields | amod |
| 5 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lances | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bells | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bells | cc |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 silver | amod |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bells | nsubj |
| 10 | bells | bell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 march | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 march | det |
| 13 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bells | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bell | present | Long lances and shining shields | for the march | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Lances and shields
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 shields | cc |
| 3 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lances | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Silver helmets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 helmets | compound |
| 2 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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