Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…

Wait, what does the reindeer reckon the Finland woman can tie?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, reindeer, Finland woman · What happens: wait, reckon, tie

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reindeer	det
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 woman	compound
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tie	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tie	aux
12	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reckon	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reckon	present · do-support	the reindeer	tree rules
3	tie	can	the Finland woman	vn mix-22.1-2 «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 tides of the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tides	det
2	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tides	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tide		the land						nom tide «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

the storms of the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storms	det
2	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 north	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 north	det
5	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 storms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm		the north						nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the winds of the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winds	det
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 winds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wind			the world					nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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