Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

bet, what did the buttercups do when she asked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bet, buttercups · What happens: do, ask

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 981 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda runs from the garden, hears the flowers' tales, and meets a crow» 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	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 buttercups	det
6	buttercups	buttercup	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 asked	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	bet	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the buttercups	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	bet	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

sparkled gayly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	gayly	gayly	ADV	_	1 sparkled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sparkle	participle						gayly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 3

swayed gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swayed	sway	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 swayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sway	participle						gently property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nodded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	participle							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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