Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…

Be honest, how strong did the reindeer want Gerda to be?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: reindeer, Gerda · What happens: be, want · To what, where: Gerda

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 want	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 strong	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 honest	conj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 want	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reindeer	det
8	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 want	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 be	mark
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			honest property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	want	past · do-support	the reindeer	Gerda		tree rules
4	be not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here			vn exist-47.1 «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

as strong as twelve giant men of the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 strong	advmod
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 men	case
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strong	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 north	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 north	det
9	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod

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

Option 2

as strong as twelve men and a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 strong	advmod
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 men	case
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strong	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horse	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	conj

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

Option 3

as strong as ten men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 strong	advmod
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 men	case
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strong	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

as strong as twelve men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 strong	advmod
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 men	case
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strong	obl

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

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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