Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 193: the crow…

did the prince and princess get mad at the crows?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: do, get · To what, where: prince

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 982 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 193: the crowds fail at the palace, and Gerda is smuggled into the prince's bedroom» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	conj
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 crows	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crows	det
10	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mad	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	get	present	princess					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

yeah, they scolded them and sent them home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scolded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scolded	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scolded	nsubj
4	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scolded	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sent	cc
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scolded	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sent	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	7 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	they	them = they					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	send	past	they not said here	them = they				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

yeah, they were furious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 furious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 furious	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	cop
5	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					furious property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, they praised them but said don't do it again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 praised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 praised	nsubj
4	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 praised	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 praised	conj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	praise	past	they	them = they		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	they not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	infinitive · do-support		it	again	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

nope, they gave them a feast and cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 feast	det
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cake	cc
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	a feast and cake	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient feast=Theme

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