Test 12 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Did the girls sing about the cuckoo, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls · What happens: sing

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 girls	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sing	nsubj
4	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 cuckoo	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cuckoo	det
7	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 then	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sing	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the girls				then	about the cuckoo	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about cuckoo=Location

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

yeah, the cuckoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cuckoo	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cuckoo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cuckoo	det
4	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they sang about the moon and stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stars	cc
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they					about the moon and stars	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about moon=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they sang about the cuckoo and sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 cuckoo	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cuckoo	det
7	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sun	cc
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cuckoo	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they					about the cuckoo and sun	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about cuckoo=Location

Option 4

nah, about snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 snow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 snow	advmod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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