Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

fam, what did the princess want in a husband?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: do, want · To what, where: princess

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	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	1 fam	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 husband	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 husband	det
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fam	the princess					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	want	present	fam					in a husband	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

someone who could sing and dance well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sing	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sing	aux
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 someone	acl:relcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dance	cc
6	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sing	conj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dance	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	could							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	dance	infinitive						well property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

a man who never spoke at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 spoke	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 spoke	advmod
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past	a man			all			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

knows what to say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a gentle voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 voice	det
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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