Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 193: the crow…

no cap, Kay walked in with boots going creak creak?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, boots · What happens: walk in, go · To what, where: creak creak

This is test 3 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 walked	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 boots	case
8	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walked	obl
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 boots	acl
10	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 creak	compound
11	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk in	past	no cap					with boots	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	gerund	boots not said here	creak creak					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location creak=Theme

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

nope, his shoes were silent and neat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 silent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoes	nmod:poss
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 silent	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silent	cop
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 neat	cc
8	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 silent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his shoes					silent property	tree rules
2	be		his shoes not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, his boots squeaked and he laughed about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 squeaked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 squeaked	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 boots	nmod:poss
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 squeaked	nsubj
5	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laughed	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laughed	nsubj
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 squeaked	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeak	past	his boots						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	he					about it	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, his boots creaked loud and he didn't care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 creaked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 creaked	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 boots	nmod:poss
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 creaked	nsubj
5	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creaked	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 care	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 care	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 care	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 care	advmod
11	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 creaked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creak	past	his boots					loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not care	past · do-support	he						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

yep, he wore slippers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 wore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	he	slippers					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme

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