Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

why was the girl so hyped about the frost?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, hype · To what, where: girl

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 girl	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 girl	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hyped	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hyped	advmod
6	hyped	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 frost	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frost	det
9	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hyped	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hyped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the girl					tree rules
2	hype	past	the girl					about the frost	tree rules

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

it looked like tiny diamonds flying across the snowy garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 diamonds	case
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 diamonds	amod
5	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 diamonds	acl
7	across	across	ADP	_	10 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
9	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 garden	amod
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					like tiny diamonds	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	fly	gerund	tiny diamonds not said here			the snowy garden			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across garden=Trajectory

Option 2

it looked like diamonds scattered on every twig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 diamonds	case
4	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
5	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 diamonds	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 twig	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 twig	det
8	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					like diamonds	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	scatter	participle		diamonds not said here		every twig			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on twig=Destination

Option 3

it looked like pearls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 pearls	case
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					like pearls	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it looked like diamonds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 diamonds	case
4	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it					like diamonds	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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