Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…
is the window freezing or thawing when the snowman is stuck?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, thaw, stick · To what, where: window freezing, snowman
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 freezing | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 freezing | det |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 freezing | compound |
| 4 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 thawing | cc |
| 6 | thawing | thaw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 freezing | conj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 stuck | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 snowman | det |
| 9 | snowman | snowman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stuck | aux:pass |
| 11 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thawing | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 freezing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the window freezing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | thaw | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | stick | present · passive | the snowman | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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
thawing, all water drops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thawing | thaw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 thawing | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 drops | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drops | compound |
| 5 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 thawing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thaw | gerund | all water drops | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient drop=Result |
Option 2
freezing, all frost fern
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fern | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 fern | det |
| 4 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fern | compound |
| 5 | fern | fern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 freezing | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
freezing, the glass covered with ice flowers all over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glass | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 glass | det |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 freezing | appos |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 glass | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 flowers | case |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flowers | compound |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 over | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 covered | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | the glass not said here | with ice flowers; over property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
freezing, all ice flowers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flowers | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 flowers | det |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flowers | compound |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 freezing | conj |
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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