Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

Who picked the Flower up in the cold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pick up · To what, where: Flower, cold

This is test 9 · ★ 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	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Flower	det
4	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cold	det
8	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past		the Flower		the cold			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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

Some farmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 farmers	det
2	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Some children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Some children who were walking home from school in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walking	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 walking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walking	aux
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 walking	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 snow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snow	det
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	some children			school		in the snow; home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from school=Trajectory

Option 4

The gardener's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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