Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…
Real talk, did the Finland lady give Gerda the potion?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: give · To what, where: potion, Gerda
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talk | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 6 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lady | compound |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 potion | det |
| 11 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Real talk | the potion | Gerda | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient potion=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
Nah, she said the power that Gerda needed could never come from a potion, only from the heart
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 power | det |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 needed | obj |
| 8 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 needed | nsubj |
| 9 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 power | acl:relcl |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 potion | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 potion | det |
| 15 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heart | punct |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 heart | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | need | past | Gerda | the power | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not come | could | the power | a potion | from the heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from potion=Initial_Location from heart=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she said power's in the heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 power | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | the heart | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in heart=Manner |
Option 3
Nope, she said it's in the heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heart | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | the heart | tree rules |
Option 4
No, she said power's in her heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 power | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | power's heart | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in heart=Manner |
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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