Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 193: the crow…

why did Gerda cry in the bedroom, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gerda · What happens: cry · To what, where: bedroom

This is test 12 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 cry	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	aux
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cry	nsubj
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bedroom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bedroom	det
7	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 real	case
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 real	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cry	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	Gerda			the bedroom			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bedroom=Location

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

she told her whole story and what the crows did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 told	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crows	det
9	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she	her whole story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	do	past	the crows						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she missed her grandmother and home town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 missed	nsubj
2	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandmother	nmod:poss
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 missed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 town	cc
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 town	compound
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grandmother	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	she	her grandmother and home town					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus

Option 3

she was sad that Kay had been so cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 cold	mark
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cold	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cold	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 cold	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 cold	advmod
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sad	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sad property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	Kay					cold property	tree rules

Option 4

she told her whole story and what the crows did, and everyone in the room was moved to tears too

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 did	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crows	det
9	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 moved	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 moved	cc
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 moved	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 everyone	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 moved	aux:pass
18	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 tears	case
20	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 moved	obl
21	too	too	ADV	_	18 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she	her whole story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	do	past	the crows			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	move	past · passive		everyone	tears	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to tear=Trajectory

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