Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…

what did the oars look like splashing in the lake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oars · What happens: do, look, splash · To what, where: lake

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 863 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and Babette near their wedding, then their boat drifts away» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oars	det
4	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 splashing	mark
7	splashing	splash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 look	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 lake	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lake	det
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 splashing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	look	present	the oars		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	splash	gerund	the oars not said here	the lake	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location

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

Fins of a big fish, honestly, slicing neatly through the calm lake water

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slicing	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 fish	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fins	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slicing	punct
7	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	9 slicing	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slicing	punct
9	slicing	slice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	9 slicing	advmod
11	through	through	ADP	_	15 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
13	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
14	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 water	compound
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slicing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slice	gerund	Fins of a big fish					through the calm lake water; honestly, neatly property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through water=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fins of a fish, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 fish	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fins	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fins	punct
6	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	1 Fins	advmod

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

Option 3

Little silver spades, sort of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silver	amod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spades	nsubj
3	spades	spade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sort	punct
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spades	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 sort	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spade	present	Little silver	sort					tree rules

Option 4

Arms of a swan, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 swan	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 swan	det
4	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Arms	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Arms	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Arms of a swan						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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