Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

Did the snow crackle when you walked on it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, walk · To what, where: snow crackle, crackle

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crackle	det
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crackle	compound
4	crackle	crackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 walked	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 walked	nsubj
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walked	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the snow crackle					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crackle=Eventuality
2	walk	past	you			crackle			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

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

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loudly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, it was soft like feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 soft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 soft	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soft	cop
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 feathers	case
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 soft	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					like feathers; soft property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, like you had new boots on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 on	aux
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boots	amod
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	root	root

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

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