Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…

Wait, how many times did she read that fish note?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, read · To what, where: fish note

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 read	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 read	obl:unmarked
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 read	aux
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 read	nsubj
8	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 note	mark
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 note	compound
11	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 read	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	read	past · do-support	she	fish note			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Three times, then she knew it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knew	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 knew	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	she	it			then; time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

She read it over three times, and each time the message grew clearer in her mind

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 read	compound:prt
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 read	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grew	cc
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	obl:unmarked
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 message	det
12	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 read	conj
14	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 grew	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 mind	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mind	nmod:poss
17	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read over	past	She	it		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	grow	past	the message		message's mind	time	clear property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location
3	mind		message					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Four times, then she knew it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knew	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 knew	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	she	it			then; time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Three times over, very slowly, until every word of the fish note was known to her

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 over	obl:unmarked
3	over	over	ADV	_	16 known	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slowly	punct
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 slowly	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 over	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 known	punct
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 known	mark
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 word	det
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 known	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 note	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 note	det
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 note	compound
14	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 word	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 known	aux:pass
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 known	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		every word of the fish note	her = she				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	word			the fish note					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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