Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 193: the crow…

is the bedroom just wallpaper with stars or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bedroom · What happens: be · To what, where: wallpaper

This is test 9 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wallpaper	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bedroom	det
3	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wallpaper	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wallpaper	advmod
5	wallpaper	wallpaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 stars	case
7	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wallpaper	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stars	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wallpaper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the bedroom	wallpaper				with stars	tree rules

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

nah, plain paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 paint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paint	amod
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, the ceiling was like a palm-tree of glass leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 tree	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ceiling	det
4	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tree	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
8	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 palm	punct
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 leaves	case
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaves	compound
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tree	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ceiling					like a palm tree; of glass leaves	tree rules

Option 3

yeah, the ceiling was painted with a blue sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 painted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 painted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ceiling	det
4	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 painted	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 painted	aux:pass
6	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 sky	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sky	det
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sky	amod
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		the ceiling				with a blue sky	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with sky=Theme

Option 4

nope, the walls were covered in gold stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 walls	det
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	aux:pass
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 stars	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stars	compound
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the walls				in gold stars	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in star=Theme

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