Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…

Bruv, what did she write her message on, since she had no paper?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: write, have · To what, where: message, paper

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 write	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 write	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 write	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 write	nsubj
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 message	nmod:poss
8	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 message	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 write	parataxis
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 paper	det
15	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · do-support	Bruv	Bruv's message				Bruv vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient message=Topic
2	have	past	Bruv	no paper					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient

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

a dried stock-fish from the lovely sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fish	amod
3	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 stock	punct
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a bit of birch bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bark	case
4	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bark	compound
5	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a dried stock-fish she found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fish	amod
3	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 fish	punct
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	find	past	fish	a dried stock fish not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a dried stock-fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fish	amod
3	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 stock	punct
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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