Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

Yeah, where did Kay take his sledge, the big square where the lads play?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kay, lads · What happens: take, play · To what, where: sledge

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 take	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sledge	nmod:poss
8	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 square	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 square	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 square	amod
12	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sledge	appos
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 play	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lads	det
15	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 play	nsubj
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 square	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	Kay	Kay's sledge					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme
2	play	infinitive	the lads						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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

out past the town gate to the frozen fields and hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	out	out	ADV	_	5 gate	advmod
2	past	past	ADP	_	5 gate	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gate	compound
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 fields	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
8	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fields	amod
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gate	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hills	cc
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fields	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the old market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 market	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 market	amod
3	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the great square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 square	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 square	amod
3	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the big square where the boys were playing with their sledges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 square	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 square	amod
3	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 playing	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 playing	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 playing	aux
8	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 square	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 sledges	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sledges	nmod:poss
11	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	the boys					with boys's sledges	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sledge=Theme

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