Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous…

did Rudy's walk home feel like a dead long trek?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rudy · What happens: walk, feel

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 861 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous of the Englishman, Babette sends him away, and Rudy walks home alone over the mountains» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 walk	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Rudy	case
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	6 feel	advmod
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	ccomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 trek	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trek	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trek	amod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trek	amod
11	trek	trek	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · do-support	Rudy						tree rules
2	feel	present	Rudy not said here					like a dead long trek; home property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like trek=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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it was freezing and he was on his own, rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 freezing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 freezing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 freezing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 freezing	aux
5	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 own	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 own	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 own	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 freezing	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rough	punct
13	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 own	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · progressive	it		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	he	own property	tree rules
3	be		he not said here		tree rules

Option 2

yeah, it was dark and cold, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cold	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dark	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					mate vocative; dark property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

nah, it wasn't far, he got home before the miller's dog even noticed he had gone out

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	17 noticed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 far	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 far	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 noticed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 far	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
11	before	before	ADP	_	15 dog	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 miller	det
13	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dog	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 miller	case
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 noticed	advmod
17	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gone	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	aux
20	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 noticed	ccomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 gone	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	it		far property	tree rules
2	get	past	he	before the miller's dog	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	notice	past				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go out	past · perfect	dog			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it was freezing and dark and he was alone on the path with the snow falling all round him

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 freezing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 freezing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 freezing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 freezing	aux
5	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dark	cc
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 freezing	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 path	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 path	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 path	cop
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 path	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 path	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 path	det
14	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 freezing	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 snow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 snow	det
17	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 path	nmod
18	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 snow	acl
19	all	all	ADV	_	18 falling	advmod
20	round	round	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · progressive	it			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	he	the path	with the snow; alone property	tree rules
3	fall	gerund	the snow not said here		round him = he; all property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round he=Initial_Location

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