Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…
Who was the legend who said "snip, snap, snare" lol?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: legend · What happens: be, say · To what, where: legend, snip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 legend | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 legend | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 legend | det |
| 4 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 legend | acl:relcl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 snip | punct |
| 8 | snip | snip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 snap | punct |
| 10 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snip | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 snare | punct |
| 12 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snip | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 snip | punct |
| 14 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 legend | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 legend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the legend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the legend | snip and snap and snare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snip=Topic |
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
The robber-girl who lived in the old castle with the wild crows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 2 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 robber | punct |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girl | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 castle | amod |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 crows | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crows | det |
| 13 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crows | compound |
| 14 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the robber girl | the old castle | with the wild crows | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The robber-girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 2 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 robber | punct |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The robber-king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 2 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 robber | punct |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The little robber-girl who laughed at the reindeer and the crows too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 3 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 robber | punct |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 girl | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 reindeer | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reindeer | det |
| 10 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crows | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crows | det |
| 13 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reindeer | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 laughed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the little robber girl | the reindeer and the crows | 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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