Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

Ayy, what kinda snow did they call feathers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: call · To what, where: Ayy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 call	obj
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 snow	advmod
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	obl
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 call	aux
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 call	nsubj
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ayy	parataxis
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 call	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ayy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	they	Ayy				snow obl	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme feather=Result

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

The falling white stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stuff	det
2	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stuff	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuff	amod
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Falling white cotton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cotton	amod
3	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Falling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund		white cotton					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cotton=Result

Option 3

The cold white dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dust	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dust	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dust	amod
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The soft white stuff that falls from the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stuff	det
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuff	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuff	amod
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 falls	nsubj
6	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stuff	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	the soft white stuff			the sky			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location

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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