Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…
Wait, did the grain in his heart go all frozen, like an ice lolly? What did it turn into?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, grain · What happens: wait, do, go, turn · To what, where: grain, heart
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Wait, did the grain in his heart go all frozen, like an ice lolly?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grain | det |
| 5 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 frozen | advmod |
| 11 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 go | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lolly | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 lolly | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lolly | det |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lolly | compound |
| 16 | lolly | lolly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | 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 | like a ice lolly | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | the grain | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | present | his heart | frozen property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in heart=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.
Sentence 2: What did it turn into?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 turn | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 turn | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · do-support | grain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a lump of ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lump | det |
| 2 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ice | case |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lump | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a cold stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stone | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a heavy block of snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 block | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 block | amod |
| 3 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 snow | case |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 block | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a small piece of glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 piece | amod |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 glass | case |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | 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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