Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…

Real quick, what was Kay doing in that cold palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: be, do · To what, where: Kay, cold palace

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Real	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Kay	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Kay	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Kay	cop
6	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Real	conj
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Kay	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 palace	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 palace	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 palace	amod
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Kay					tree rules
2	do	gerund	Kay not said here			that cold palace			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Arranging ice shards for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arranging	arrange	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shards	compound
3	shards	shard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Arranging	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 hours	case
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Arranging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	gerund		ice shards			hour		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shard=Product

Option 2

Trying to spell the word eternity out of ice pieces in the palace cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cold	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 spell	mark
3	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eternity	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eternity	compound
6	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spell	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 pieces	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pieces	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pieces	compound
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spell	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spell	obl
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	spell not said to happen	to-infinitive		the word eternity		ice pieces		in the palace	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent eternity=Theme in palace=Manner

Option 3

Sitting alone in the cold palace trying to make the word eternity from ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 trying	csubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 palace	amod
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
7	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trying	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eternity	det
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eternity	compound
12	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 ice	case
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund			the cold palace	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location
2	try	gerund	Sitting				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sitting not said here	the word eternity	ice		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset eternity=Product from ice=Material

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Making ice puzzles for eternity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puzzles	compound
3	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Making	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 eternity	case
5	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		ice puzzles			for eternity		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent puzzle=Product for eternity=Asset

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