Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come…

Bro, what song made Kay start crying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, Kay · What happens: song, make, start, cry

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 song	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 song	nsubj
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 start	nsubj
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 start	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	song		Bro and song	tree rules
2	make	past	Bro and song	tree rules
3	start	infinitive	Kay	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	gerund	Kay not said here	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The hymn about the rose in the valley and the Christ child that made him weep

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hymn	det
2	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weep	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 rose	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rose	det
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hymn	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 valley	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valley	det
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 child	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
11	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 child	compound
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 valley	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 child	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Christ child	hymn					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
2	weep	infinitive	the hymn about the rose in the valley and the Christ child						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The sea shanty of the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shanty	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shanty	compound
3	shanty	shanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shanty	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The rose in the valley hymn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rose	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 hymn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hymn	det
5	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hymn	compound
6	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	nmod

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

Option 4

The old hymn about the rose in the valley that grandmother sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hymn	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hymn	amod
3	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sang	nsubj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 rose	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rose	det
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hymn	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 valley	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 valley	det
9	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rose	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 grandmother	det
11	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 valley	nmod:unmarked
12	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the old hymn about the rose in the valley that grandmother						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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