Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

Yo, what did Kay keep saying to mess with Grandma when she told her tales?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: keep, say, mess, tell · To what, where: tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 keep	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 mess	mark
9	mess	mess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saying	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 Grandma	case
11	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mess	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 told	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mess	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tales	nmod:poss
16	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 told	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Kay			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Kay not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mess	to-infinitive			with Grandma	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	Kay	Kay's tales		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
5	tell		Kay			nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

"why"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 why	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 why	punct

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

Option 2

"so" every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 so	punct
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 time	advmod
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 so	punct
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"but" every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 but	punct
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 time	cc
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

"but" over and over again without stopping at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 over	punct
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 over	cc
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 over	punct
4	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 over	cc
6	over	over	ADV	_	4 over	conj
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 stopping	mark
9	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 over	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 stopping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund				all			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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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