Test 7 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Hang on, are Kay and Gerda brother and sister?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: hang on, be · To what, where: Kay

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Kay	punct
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Kay	cop
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brother	cc
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 brother	compound
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Kay	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sister	cc
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brother	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		Kay and Gerda brother and sister					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

yeah, they were twins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 twins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 twins	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 twins	cop
5	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	twins					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, they just loved each other loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 loved	advmod
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 loads	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 loads	amod
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	each other loads					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus

Option 3

nah, they just loved each other loads, like real friends do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 loved	advmod
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 loads	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 loads	amod
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loved	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friends	amod
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	each other loads					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus
2	do	present	real friends						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, they were cousins from up the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cousins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cousins	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cousins	cop
5	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 road	case
7	up	up	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cousins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	cousins		the road			tree rules

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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