Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

What was the foster-mum like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: foster mum · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	6 mum	det
4	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mum	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 foster	punct
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	like	like	ADP	_	6 mum	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the foster mum						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 right answer

wriggly neck, kissing him, well weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wriggly	wriggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 neck	amod
2	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kissing	punct
4	kissing	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 neck	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kissing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 weird	punct
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 weird	advmod
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 neck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	gerund	wriggly neck not said here	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 2

kinda bossy, always fussing about food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	2 bossy	advmod
2	bossy	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fussing	punct
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 fussing	advmod
5	fussing	fuss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bossy	advcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fussing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fuss	gerund						about food; always property	tree rules

Option 3

wriggly neck, kissing him all the time, and well weird, like a bird with too many feathers

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wriggly	wriggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 neck	amod
2	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weird	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kissing	punct
4	kissing	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 neck	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kissing	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kissing	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weird	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 weird	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 weird	advmod
12	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bird	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 bird	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weird	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 feathers	case
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 many	advmod
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feathers	amod
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bird	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	gerund	wriggly neck not said here	neck			time		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 4

cold hands, sharp voice, always scolding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hands	amod
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 voice	punct
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hands	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scolding	punct
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 scolding	advmod
8	scolding	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hands	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	gerund	cold hands and sharp voice not said here					always property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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