Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

What was the omnibus for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: omnibus · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 omnibus	det
4	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	4 omnibus	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the omnibus						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

the ride to the top of the glacier where the Ice Maiden lives in her crystal palace

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ride	det
2	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lives	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 top	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 top	det
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ride	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 glacier	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glacier	det
8	glacier	glacier	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lives	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 lives	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Maiden	det
11	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Maiden	compound
12	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lives	nsubj
13	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 palace	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 palace	nmod:poss
16	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 palace	amod
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the ride to the top			Maiden's crystal palace		of the glacier	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location

Option 2

to carry the miller's cheese and the English gentleman's luggage from Geneva to Interlaken and back

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 carry	mark
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cheese	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 miller	case
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 luggage	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gentleman	det
9	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gentleman	amod
10	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 luggage	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 gentleman	case
12	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Geneva	case
14	Geneva	Geneva	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 luggage	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Interlaken	case
16	Interlaken	Interlaken	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 back	cc
18	back	back	ADV	_	2 carry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	to-infinitive		the miller's cheese	Interlaken				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme to interlaken=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the ride between Valais and Vaud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ride	det
2	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 Valais	case
4	Valais	Valais	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ride	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Vaud	cc
6	Vaud	Vaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Valais	conj

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

Option 4

to haul cheese to the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 haul	mark
2	haul	haul	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 haul	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 market	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 market	det
6	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 haul	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	to-infinitive		cheese		the market			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme to market=Destination

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