Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches In…

Cool, what did Rudy say about getting here?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rudy · What happens: say, get · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 857 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches Interlachen, wins the shooting match and meets Babette again» 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	Cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Cool	parataxis
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 getting	mark
8	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 say	advcl
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 getting	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Rudy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	get	gerund	Rudy not said here			here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

I walked here.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 walked	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

"I came over the mountains on foot, with nothing but my gun."

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountains	det
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 foot	case
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mountains	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 nothing	case
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 came	parataxis
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 gun	cc
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 gun	nmod:poss
14	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	I			the mountains on foot			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial_Location

Option 3

I came up from the lake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	I			the lake			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"I came over the mountains."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountains	det
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	I			the mountains			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial_Location

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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