Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…

Was the old woman's hat well mint?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hat · What happens: be · To what, where: well mint

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mint	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hat	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 woman	case
6	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mint	nsubj
7	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mint	amod
8	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old woman's hat	well mint					tree rules

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

Yeah, decked with blue ribbons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 decked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 decked	punct
3	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 ribbons	case
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ribbons	amod
6	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 decked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deck	participle						with blue ribbons	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ribbon=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was a battered old hat with a torn brim and a stain

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 hat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hat	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hat	det
6	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hat	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hat	amod
8	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 brim	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 brim	det
11	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 brim	amod
12	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hat	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stain	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stain	det
15	stain	stain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brim	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	batter	participle				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a battered old hat	with a torn brim and a stain	tree rules
3	tear	participle				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, all covered in roses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 covered	nsubj:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 roses	case
6	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle · passive		all				in roses	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in rose=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, covered in painted flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 covered	punct
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
5	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 flowers	amod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						in painted flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in flower=Theme
2	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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