Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

ngl, how many times did Gerda look back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gerda · What happens: look back

This is test 6 · ★ 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	obl:unmarked
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 look	aux
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ngl	parataxis
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 look	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	past · do-support	Gerda				time		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

seven times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

every time she passed the hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	she	the hedge			time		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hedge=Trajectory

Option 3

more times than she could count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 times	amod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 count	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 count	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 count	aux
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 times	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	could	she	more times not said here					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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