Test 8 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Were the window boxes close enough to step across?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, step · To what, where: window boxes

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boxes	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boxes	det
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boxes	compound
4	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boxes	amod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 close	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 step	mark
8	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 close	advcl
9	across	across	ADV	_	8 step	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 boxes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the window boxes					tree rules
2	step	to-infinitive						across property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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

yeah, just about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 about	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 about	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

nah, you'd have to climb down first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 climb	mark
7	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 climb	compound:prt
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 climb	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	you						tree rules
2	climb down	to-infinitive	you not said here					first property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

nah, too far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 far	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, you could jump across the gutter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 jump	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 jump	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	aux
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 gutter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gutter	det
8	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	could	you			the gutter			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across gutter=Trajectory

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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