Test 11 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Was the yard-dog happy the snowman was gone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: yard dog

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
3	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dog	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 yard	punct
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snowman	amod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snowman	det
8	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux:pass
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · passive		the yard dog				go property	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 · ← Mova's choice

he kept growling and snapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growling	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 snapping	cc
5	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 growling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	past	he	tree rules
2	growl	gerund	he not said here	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	snap	gerund	he not said here	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he kept barking away, away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 barking	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 away	punct
6	away	away	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he					away property	tree rules
2	bark away	gerund	he not said here					away property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he kept howling at the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 howling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	howl	gerund	he not said here					at the moon	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at moon=Stimulus

Option 4

he fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp

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

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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