Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…

Did the snow-drop's brother blow bubbles from a pipe? Sick.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, sick · To what, where: blow bubbles, pipe

This is test 12 · ★ 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: Did the snow-drop's brother blow bubbles from a pipe?

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	5 drop	det
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drop	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bubbles	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 drop	case
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blow	compound
8	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bubbles	compound
9	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Did	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 pipe	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pipe	det
12	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the snow drop's blow bubbles		a pipe			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Eventuality

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: Sick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he blew whistles from a flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blew	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 flute	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flute	det
8	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	he	whistles				from a flute	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient from flute=Co-Patient

Option 2

Nah, he blew a silver flute tune that made the snow melt, mate

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tune	det
6	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tune	amod
7	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tune	compound
8	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tune	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 melt	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 melt	compound
13	melt	melt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tune	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	he	a silver flute tune and mate					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tune=Patient
2	make	past	a silver flute tune and mate	the snow melt					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset melt=Product

Option 3

Yeah, big bubbles that caught all the colours of the sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bubbles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bubbles	punct
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bubbles	amod
4	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 caught	nsubj
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bubbles	acl:relcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 colours	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 colours	det
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 caught	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sunlight	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sunlight	det
12	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 colours	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	big bubbles	all colours of the sunlight					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, bubbles that caught the colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bubbles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bubbles	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colours	det
7	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	bubbles	the colours					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme

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