Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

test: wait, was the baby still alive after?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: test baby

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 baby	compound
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct
3	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 test	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 baby	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 alive	advmod
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 baby	amod
10	after	after	ADP	_	9 alive	fixed
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 baby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the test baby					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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the little boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 boy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yes, the baby lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	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	live	past	the baby						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yeah, the little boy got pulled up alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pulled	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	nsubj:pass
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pulled	aux:pass
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pulled	compound:prt
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pulled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	past · passive		the little boy				alive property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result

Option 4

yeah, the boy lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	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	live	past	the boy						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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