Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

hold up, why couldn't she hit the frog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: hold up, not hit · To what, where: frog

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hit	advmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hit	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	nsubj
8	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 hold	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 frog	det
10	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	not hit	could	she	the frog					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frog=Co-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

its size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 size	nmod:poss
2	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

its slimy skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 skin	nmod:poss
2	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skin	amod
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

its sad eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eyes	amod
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

its legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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