Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

Which stars did Rudy spot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stars · What happens: spot

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spot	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spot	aux
4	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spot	nsubj
5	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past · do-support	which stars						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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

two shiny ones, for him and the maiden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ones	nummod
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 him	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ones	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 maiden	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 him	conj

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

Option 2

a huge crowd of tiny stars, like all the people Rudy had ever met in Interlaken and Bex

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crowd	amod
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 stars	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stars	amod
6	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crowd	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 people	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 people	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crowd	nmod
12	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 people	flat
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 met	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 met	advmod
15	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Interlaken	case
17	Interlaken	Interlaken	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Bex	cc
19	Bex	Bex	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Interlaken	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	a huge crowd of tiny stars like all people			Interlaken and Bex	ever		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

just one, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
4	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 one	discourse

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

two bright ones, like him and Babette

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ones	nummod
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 him	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ones	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Babette	cc
8	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 him	conj

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

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