Test 2 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Wait, was the pole the thing the lads built him round?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lads · What happens: wait, be, build · To what, where: pole, him

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pole	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pole	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pole	det
5	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lads	det
9	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 built	nsubj
10	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 built	obj
12	round	round	ADV	_	10 built	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the pole		tree rules
3	build	past	the lads	him = he	round property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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

yep, the girls built him round it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj
5	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the girls	him = he				round it	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, the boys built him up round it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj
5	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 built	compound:prt
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build up	past	the boys	him = he				round it	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer he=Patient

Option 3

yep, the boys built him up round it with snow and sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj
5	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 built	compound:prt
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 snow	case
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sticks	cc
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build up	past	the boys	him = he				round it; with snow and sticks	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer he=Patient

Option 4

yep, the boys built him up round it, using loads of packed snow

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj
5	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 built	compound:prt
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 using	punct
11	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 built	advcl
12	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 using	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 snow	case
14	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 snow	amod
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build up	past	the boys	him = he	round it	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer he=Patient
2	use	gerund	the boys not said here	loads of packed snow		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient
3	pack	participle				vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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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