Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come…

Ngl, what did the Flea do that nobody could see?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, see · To what, where: Flea

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 see	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ngl	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Flea	det
6	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 see	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	the Flea					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flea=Eventuality
2	see	could · present · do-support	Ngl						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

He hid so well that nobody could find him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 hid	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 find	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 find	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hid	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He					well property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	could	nobody	him = he					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

Option 2

He jumped so high nobody saw where he went, and he landed on the Princess

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nobody	amod
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	advcl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 went	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 landed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 landed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 landed	nsubj
13	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 Princess	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	jump	past	He		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	nobody		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past	he		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	land	past	he	on the Princess	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on princess=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He leapt so far that no one saw him fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leapt	nsubj
2	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 leapt	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leapt	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leapt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leapt	past	He		far property	tree rules
2	see	past	no one	him = he		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	fall	infinitive				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He jumped so high nobody saw where he went

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nobody	amod
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	advcl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 went	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	jump	past	He	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	nobody	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past	he	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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