Test 3 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Bruv, why did the snowman want the stove so bad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snowman · What happens: want · To what, where: stove

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 want	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 want	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snowman	det
6	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stove	det
9	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 bad	advmod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 want	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the snowman	the stove				Bruv vocative; bad property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot stove=Theme

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 was after a hot potato inside

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	6 potato	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 potato	cop
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 potato	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 potato	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 potato	amod
6	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 potato	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				after a hot potato	inside property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

there was a stove scraper hidden in him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 scraper	det
4	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scraper	compound
5	scraper	scraper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scraper	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a stove scraper			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	participle		a stove scraper not said here				in scraper	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in he=Location

Option 3

he wanted the warm coal

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coal	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coal	amod
5	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the warm coal					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot coal=Theme

Option 4

the stove had a hidden coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stove	det
2	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coin	det
5	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coin	amod
6	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the stove	a hidden coin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=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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