Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

ngl, what did the grandmother do in the buttercup story?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: do · To what, where: grandmother, buttercup story

This is test 13 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	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 grandmother	det
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
10	buttercup	buttercup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 story	compound
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl	the grandmother					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Eventuality
2	do	present	ngl not said here			the buttercup story			vn act-114-1 «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

sang to the flowers

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
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sang	obl

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

Option 2

knitted warm socks beside the fire all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knitted	knit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 socks	amod
3	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 knitted	obj
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knitted	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knitted	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 day	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knit	participle		warm socks		the fire	day		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

sat in her big chair and told a long tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 chair	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chair	nmod:poss
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chair	amod
5	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sat	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tale	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tale	amod
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				her big chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past		a long tale					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sat in her arm chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 chair	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chair	nmod:poss
4	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chair	compound
5	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				her arm chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location

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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