Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

Bro, what did the snowflakes look like through the burning-glass?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snowflakes · What happens: do, look

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
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	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snowflakes	det
6	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	13 glass	case
9	through	through	ADP	_	13 glass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 glass	det
11	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glass	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 burning	punct
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						Bro vocative	tree rules
2	look	present	the snowflakes					like the burning glass	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

snowy birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

flowers or glittering stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 stars	cc
3	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stars	amod
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 flowers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

small bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bells	amod
2	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

white feathers or pale moons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feathers	amod
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 moons	cc
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moons	amod
5	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feathers	conj

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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