Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come…

Yo, what did the clock say when they walked in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clock, they · What happens: do, say, walk in · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clock	det
6	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 walked	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walked	nsubj
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the clock	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	walk in	past	they	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Tock!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tock	tock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Tock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tock	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Tick!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Tick	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tick! tack!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tack	compound
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Tick	punct
3	tack	tack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 tack	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Tick! tack! tick! tack! tick! tack!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tack	compound
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Tick	punct
3	tack	tack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tick	compound
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 tack	punct
5	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tack	compound
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 tick	punct
7	tack	tack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tick	compound
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 tack	punct
9	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 tick	punct
11	tack	tack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tick	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 tick	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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