Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

What was spring like on the walk home, was it green?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: spr, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 spring	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spring	aux
3	spring	spr	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 green	csubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 walk	case
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 walk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walk	det
7	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spring	obl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spring	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 green	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 green	nsubj
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 green	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spr	past · progressive						like the walk	tree rules
2	is	past	it					green property	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

Cold and grey and wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 grey	cc
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cold	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wet	cc
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cold	conj

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

Option 2

White with frozen snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 snow	case
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 White	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Green and full of flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 full	cc
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Green	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl

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

Option 4

Green and full of flowers, with birds singing in every tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birds	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 full	cc
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Green	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 birds	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 birds	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 birds	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	Green birds not said here			every tree			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

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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