Test 9 · ★ · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Was Kay scared when the snowflake lady waved?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, wave · To what, where: Kay

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Kay	cop
2	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 waved	nsubj:pass
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Kay	amod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 waved	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	snowflake	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lady	compound
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waved	nsubj
8	waved	wave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 waved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Kay					tree rules
2	wave	participle · passive		Kay					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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, he jumped off the chair and ran off, proper scared of her

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 jumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 chair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chair	det
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scared	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 scared	amod
13	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jumped	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	past	he	the chair					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chair=Trajectory
2	run off	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he went white and froze up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 froze	cc
7	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 froze	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					white property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	freeze up	past	he not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

nah, he just waved back at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 waved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waved	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 waved	advmod
5	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 waved	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave back	past	he					at her = she	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he jumped off the chair, proper scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 jumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 chair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chair	det
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 scared	amod
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jumped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	past	he	the chair					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chair=Trajectory

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