Test 15 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…
Sorted, what was it the robber-girl said she'd kept back for herself?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robber girl, girl · What happens: sort, be, say, keep back · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 984 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda rides the reindeer north to Finland and is left alone in the snow» 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 | Sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sorted | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 it | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Sorted | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 7 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 robber | punct |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kept | aux |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 kept | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 herself | case |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 kept | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | participle | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the robber girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | keep back | past · perfect | girl | for girl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
the gloves, since they're warm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gloves | det |
| 2 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 warm | punct |
| 4 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 warm | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 warm | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 warm | cop |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gloves | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | gloves = glove | the gloves not said here | warm property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the muff, because it's so pretty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 muff | det |
| 2 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 's | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 's | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 's | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 muff | acl:relcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 pretty | advmod |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 's | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | muff | the muff not said here | pretty property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot muff=Theme |
Option 3
the muff, because it's so pretty and warm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 muff | det |
| 2 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pretty | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretty | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 pretty | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pretty | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pretty | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 pretty | advmod |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 warm | cc |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pretty | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the muff | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the muff not said here | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the fine silver muff, because she loved it dearly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 muff | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 muff | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 muff | compound |
| 4 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loved | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 loved | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | nsubj |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 muff | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | obj |
| 10 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 8 loved | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | she | muff | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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