Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…
Wait, what did the driver do when Kay tried to let go of the rope?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Kay · What happens: wait, do, try, let, go · To what, where: driver
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 driver | det |
| 6 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tried | aux |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 tried | advmod |
| 9 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tried | nsubj |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 driver | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rope | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rope | det |
| 16 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the driver | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | try | present · do-support | Kay | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | Kay not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Kay not said here | of the rope | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of rope=Initial_Location |
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
frowned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frowned | frown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frown | participle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
whipped the horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horses | det |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 whipped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whip | past | the horses | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent horse=Material |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
turned away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 turned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | participle | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nodded again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 nodded | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | participle | again | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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