Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…
So the roses just sank into the ground? That's mental.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: roses, That · What happens: sink, be · To what, where: ground
This is test 3 · ★ 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: So the roses just sank into the ground?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sank | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roses | det |
| 3 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sank | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sank | advmod |
| 5 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sank | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the roses | the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: That's mental.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mental | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mental | cop |
| 3 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mental | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | mental property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nah, the old lady planted them all in a secret garden out back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 planted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 planted | nsubj |
| 6 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 planted | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 11 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 garden | amod |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 planted | obl |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 back | advmod |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 planted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | past | the old lady | them = they | a secret garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in garden=Destination |
Option 2
Yeah, the old lady made them vanish into the earth so Gerda forgot them
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vanish | obl |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 forgot | mark |
| 13 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 forgot | nsubj |
| 14 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forgot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the old lady | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vanish | infinitive | them = they not said here | the earth | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | Gerda | them = they | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the old lady made them vanish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the old lady | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vanish | infinitive | them = they not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, she just watered them, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 watered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watered | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 watered | advmod |
| 5 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watered | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water | past | she | them = they | mate vocative | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
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