Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

Which season were they chilling in when the frost was everywhere?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: season, frost · What happens: chill in, be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 season	det
2	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chilling	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chilling	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chilling	nsubj
5	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 chilling	compound:prt
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 everywhere	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frost	det
9	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 everywhere	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 everywhere	cop
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 chilling	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill in	past · progressive	which season						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the frost					everywhere property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Winter, obviously, with the frost on everything and the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 obviously	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Winter	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 obviously	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 frost	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 frost	det
7	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obviously	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 frost	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 snow	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frost	conj

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

Option 2

Winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Spring, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Spring	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				spring		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Winter, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Winter	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Winter	advmod

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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