Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

Mate, what did folks reckon Kay was when he copied everyone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: folks, Mate · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: Mate

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 copied	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	aux
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 copied	cop
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 copied	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 copied	nsubj
11	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 copied	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 copied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	folks	Mate					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme kay=Attribute
2	is	past	Mate					copy property	tree rules

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

a cheeky lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lad	amod
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a clever boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a remarkable genius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 genius	det
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 genius	amod
3	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a proper smart lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lad	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lad	amod
3	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lad	amod
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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