Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…

Dead sad, what colour were her cheeks when they found her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour, sad cheeks · What happens: be, find · To what, where: sad cheeks, her

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sad	amod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cheeks	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cheeks	punct
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cheeks	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cheeks	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cheeks	nmod:poss
8	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	nsubj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 found	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	her sad cheeks					tree rules
2	find	past	her sad cheeks	her = she					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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

all pink and warm and healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 pink	det
2	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 warm	cc
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pink	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 healthy	cc
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pink	conj

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

Option 2

pale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

bright red, like she'd been running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 red	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 running	punct
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 running	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 running	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 running	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 running	aux
8	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · perfect · progressive	she						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

rosy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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