Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…

Did the flowers actually know where Kay is?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flowers, Kay · What happens: do, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flowers	det
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 is	advmod
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	the flowers	actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	present	Kay		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, none of them knew, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 knew	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 none	nmod
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	none	bruv					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bruv=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, none knew, they were just flowers chatting about the weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flowers	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flowers	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flowers	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 flowers	advmod
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knew	obl
10	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 flowers	acl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 weather	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weather	det
13	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chatting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	none			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	they	flowers		tree rules
3	chat speech: other	gerund	flowers not said here		about the weather	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about weather=Topic

Option 3

Nah, they were all clueless, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 clueless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clueless	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clueless	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 clueless	advmod
6	clueless	clueless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clueless	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					bruv vocative; all, clueless property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the roses knew exactly where he was, bruv, but wouldn't say

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roses	det
4	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 where	advmod
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 bruv	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bruv	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bruv	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 say	advmod
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 knew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	past	the roses		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	he	bruv	tree rules
3	not say speech: assert	would	the roses not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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