Test 1 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…
So did the snowman just, like, melt away totally?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, melt away · To what, where: snowman
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 978 «Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts, the mirror shatters, Kay and Gerda meet» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 melt | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snowman | det |
| 4 | snowman | snowman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 melt | punct |
| 7 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 9 melt | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 9 | melt | melt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 melt | advmod |
| 11 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 9 melt | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 melt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | you not said here | the snowman | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowman=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | melt away | imperative | you not said here | away, totally property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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
nah, he got dragged off by the dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 dragged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dragged | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dragged | aux:pass |
| 5 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 dragged | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag off | past · passive | the dog | he | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, he just blew away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 blew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blew | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blew | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 blew | advmod |
| 5 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 blew | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow away | past | he | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he went down into a puddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 puddle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 puddle | det |
| 8 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | he | a puddle | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4
nah, he stayed frozen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stayed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | freeze | participle | he not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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