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Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…

Wait, the sparrows sang at her? Like a proper choir?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sparrows · What happens: wait, sing

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Wait, the sparrows sang at her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sparrows	det
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sang	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	the sparrows					at her = she	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location

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: Like a proper choir?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 choir	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 choir	det
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 choir	amod
4	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 choir	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they were singing loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 singing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 singing	aux
5	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	5 singing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	they					loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, just chirping, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 chirping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 chirping	advmod
4	chirping	chirp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chirping	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chirp	gerund						mate vocative	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, they sang to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they		her = she				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, to cheer her up, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cheer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheer	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cheer	mark
4	cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheer	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 cheer	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheer	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer up	to-infinitive		her = she				mate vocative	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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