Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

How did the young man react when the letter landed, was he buzzing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: young man, letter · What happens: react, land, buzz

This is test 6 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 react	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 react	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 react	nsubj
6	react	react	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 landed	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 letter	det
9	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 landed	nsubj
10	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 react	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 buzzing	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 buzzing	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 buzzing	nsubj
14	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 landed	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 react	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	react	past · do-support	the young man	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	land	past	the letter	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buzz	past · progressive	letter	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was not pleased at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 pleased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	He			all		pleased property	tree rules

Option 2

He was very pleased indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 pleased	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					indeed, pleased property	tree rules

Option 3

He was not pleased at all and cursed the letter loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 pleased	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cursed	cc
8	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 letter	det
10	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cursed	obj
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	8 cursed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	He			all		pleased property	tree rules
2	curse	past	He not said here	the letter				loudly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

Option 4

He was not happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 happy	advmod
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	He					happy property	tree rules

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