Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

What object did the princess select as the subject of the third enigma?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: select

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	6 select	obl
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 select	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 select	nsubj
6	select	select	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 subject	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 subject	det
9	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 select	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 enigma	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 enigma	det
12	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 enigma	amod
13	enigma	enigma	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 subject	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	past · do-support	the princess					as the subject of the third enigma	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as subject=Attribute

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

A long white glove from the royal drawer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 glove	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glove	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glove	amod
4	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 drawer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drawer	det
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drawer	amod
8	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glove	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A glove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glove	det
2	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A silver-embroidered glove from her chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 glove	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 embroidered	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 silver	punct
4	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 glove	amod
5	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 chest	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 chest	nmod:poss
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glove	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embroider	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	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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