Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

what did the couple do after the frost show?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: couple · What happens: do · To what, where: couple

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» 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 couple	det
4	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 couple	acl:relcl
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 show	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 show	det
8	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	compound
9	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the couple			after the frost show		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Eventuality
2	do	present	the couple not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

slid down the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	4 hill	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hill	det
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 slid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	past				the hill			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory

Option 2

stayed in the garden and sang a song for the snowman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 garden	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 garden	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stayed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sang	cc
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 stayed	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 snowman	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snowman	det
11	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past				the garden			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
2	sing speech: express	past		a song				for the snowman	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent song=Theme for snowman=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

tripped away over the snow and into the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 tripped	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 snow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tripped	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 woods	cc
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woods	det
9	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip away	past				the snow and the woods		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snow=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

tripped away over the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 tripped	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 snow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip away	past				the snow		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snow=Trajectory

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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