Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

Dunno if you clocked it, but what did Kay hold out to catch the snowflakes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Kay · What happens: clock, hold out, catch · To what, where: it, snowflakes

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Dunno	dunno	INTJ	_	4 clocked	discourse
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 clocked	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 clocked	nsubj
4	clocked	clock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clocked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hold	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 hold	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hold	aux
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hold	nsubj
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clocked	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 hold	compound:prt
13	to	to	PART	_	14 catch	mark
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hold	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snowflakes	det
16	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 catch	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 clocked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	clock	past	you	it	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value
2	hold out	past · do-support	Kay		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	catch	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	the snowflakes	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowflake=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

his mitten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mitten	nmod:poss
2	mitten	mitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

his red cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cap	nmod:poss
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cap	amod
3	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the tail of his blue coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tail	det
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 coat	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coat	nmod:poss
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tail	nmod

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

Option 4

the sleeve of his grey coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sleeve	det
2	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 coat	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coat	nmod:poss
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleeve	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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