Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come…

Dude, how did Kay finally get his heart unfrozen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: unfreeze · To what, where: Dude

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 294 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come home, then a jumping contest begins» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unfrozen	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 unfrozen	aux:pass
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heart	nmod:poss
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	unfrozen	unfreeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 unfrozen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unfreeze	infinitive · passive		Dude					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Gerda's warm tears melted the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tears	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Gerda	case
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tears	amod
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 melted	nsubj
5	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ice	det
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	Gerda's warm tears	the ice					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result

Option 2

A song melted the frozen glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melted	nsubj
3	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 glass	amod
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	a song	the frozen glass					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient glass=Result
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Gerda's warm tears melted the ice in his heart and his eye, and he wept

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tears	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Gerda	case
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tears	amod
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 melted	nsubj
5	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ice	det
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melted	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 heart	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ice	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eye	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eye	nmod:poss
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heart	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wept	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wept	nsubj
17	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 melted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	Gerda's warm tears	the ice		Gerda's heart and Gerda's eye			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result
2	weep	past	Gerda						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Gerda's hymn cracked the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hymn	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Gerda	case
3	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cracked	nsubj
4	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ice	det
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cracked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	Gerda's hymn	the ice					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ice=Theme
2	hymn		Gerda						nom hymn «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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