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Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…

The roses said Kay's not dead, yeah? Phew, safe.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: roses · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 980 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts in a boat to an old woman's garden, where the roses vanish and she forgets Kay» 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

Sentence 1: The roses said Kay's not dead, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roses	det
2	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Kay	case
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the roses						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

Sentence 2: Phew, safe.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phew	phew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safe	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Phew	punct
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 safe	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they said he's alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 alive	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 alive	cop
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					alive property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, they said he is dead and buried under the snow, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dead	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 buried	cc
9	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dead	conj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 snow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buried	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					dead property	tree rules
3	bury	participle	he not said here			the snow and mate			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under snow=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they said he is not dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dead	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	he					dead property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, they said he is far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 away	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 away	cop
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					away, far property	tree rules

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