Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…
Oi, what were Kay and Gerda gawping at when the church clock went twelve?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: church clock · What happens: be, gawp, go · To what, where: Kay, twelve
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 979 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is carried off by the Snow Queen while Gerda searches for him» 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 | Oi | oi | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Kay | cop |
| 5 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Gerda | cc |
| 7 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kay | conj |
| 8 | gawping | gawp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clock | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clock | compound |
| 13 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gawping | advcl |
| 15 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 went | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kay and Gerda | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gawp | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | the church clock | twelve | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twelve=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
a heavy book of foreign maps and drawings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 book | amod |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 maps | case |
| 5 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maps | amod |
| 6 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 book | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drawings | cc |
| 8 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 maps | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a picture of the church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 picture | det |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 church | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 church | det |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picture | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a book of animal pictures
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pictures | case |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pictures | compound |
| 5 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 book | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a tall tower with a golden clock face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tower | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tower | amod |
| 3 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 face | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 face | amod |
| 7 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 face | compound |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tower | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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