Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 193: the crow…
fr the dream horses were glowing bright, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: glow
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glowing | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horses | det |
| 3 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horses | compound |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glowing | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glowing | aux |
| 6 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 glowing | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 right | punct |
| 9 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 6 glowing | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 glowing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | past · progressive | fr | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
yep, glowing horses that ran through the hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 glowing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glowing | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 horses | acl:relcl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | horses | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | horses | the hall | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, they were just dreams, shadows on the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 dreams | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dreams | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dreams | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 dreams | advmod |
| 6 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shadows | punct |
| 8 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dreams | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shadows | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | dreams and shadows on the wall | tree rules |
Option 3
nah, they were just dreams, shadows on the wall that the crow had described as the sleeping thoughts of people
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 dreams | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dreams | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dreams | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 dreams | advmod |
| 6 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shadows | punct |
| 8 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dreams | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shadows | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 described | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crow | det |
| 14 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 described | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 described | aux |
| 16 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wall | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 thoughts | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thoughts | det |
| 19 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thoughts | compound |
| 20 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 described | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thoughts | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | dreams and shadows on the wall | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | past · perfect · passive | the wall | as the sleeping thoughts of people | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as thought=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | think | people | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
nah, they were just dreams and shadows on the wall, flickering only because the candles in the hall were low
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 dreams | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dreams | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dreams | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 dreams | advmod |
| 6 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shadows | cc |
| 8 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dreams | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shadows | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flickering | punct |
| 13 | flickering | flicker | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dreams | conj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 low | advmod |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 low | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 candles | det |
| 17 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 low | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 candles | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 low | cop |
| 22 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flickering | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | dreams and shadows on the wall | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flicker | gerund | they not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the candles in the hall | low property | tree rules |
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