Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…

Wait, was Gerda wearing boots when she got dropped off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Gerda · What happens: wait, wear, drop off · To what, where: boots, Gerda

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	5 wearing	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wearing	aux
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wearing	nsubj
5	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wearing	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 dropped	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dropped	nsubj
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dropped	aux:pass
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wearing	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 dropped	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wear	past · progressive	Gerda	boots	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
3	drop off	past · passive		Gerda	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Nope, she had no boots or gloves, only her thin dress and bare cold hands

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 boots	det
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 gloves	cc
8	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boots	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dress	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 dress	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dress	nmod:poss
12	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dress	amod
13	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hands	cc
15	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hands	amod
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hands	amod
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dress	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no boots or gloves					tree rules

Option 2

Nope, she was missing both gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 missing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 missing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 missing	aux
5	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 gloves	det
7	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 missing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past · progressive	she	both gloves					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glove=Stimulus

Option 3

Nope, she had lost both her boots and gloves somewhere on the long road north

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	both	both	ADP	_	8 boots	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 boots	nmod:poss
8	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gloves	cc
10	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 boots	conj
11	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 lost	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 road	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 road	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 road	amod
15	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl
16	north	north	ADV	_	15 road	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	she			the long road		both her boots and gloves; somewhere property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, she had no boots or gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 boots	det
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 gloves	cc
8	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boots	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no boots or gloves					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient

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