Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

Did Wind and Weather diss the Flower or give her a hug?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wind · What happens: diss, give · To what, where: Flower, hug, her

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Wind	aux
2	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 diss	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Weather	cc
4	Weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wind	conj
5	diss	diss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Flower	det
7	Flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 diss	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 give	cc
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 diss	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hug	det
12	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 diss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	diss	present	Wind and Weather	the Flower					tree rules
2	give	infinitive	Wind and Weather not said here	a hug	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hug=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 · ← Mova's choice

They hugged her and kissed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hugged	nsubj
2	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hugged	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kissed	cc
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hugged	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	They	her = she					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	kiss	past	They not said here	her = she					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

Option 2

They welcomed her with a bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 welcomed	nsubj
2	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 welcomed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 bow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bow	det
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 welcomed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	welcome	past	They	her = she				with a bow	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They dissed her as a summer gauk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dissed	nsubj
2	dissed	dis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dissed	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 gauk	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gauk	det
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gauk	compound
7	gauk	gauk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dissed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dis	past	They	her = she				as a summer gauk	tree rules

Option 4

They laughed at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They					at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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