Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

Which of the following accurately identifies the sacred text that provides comfort to the young sailor in the snow hut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sacred text · What happens: follow, identify, provide · To what, where: sacred text, comfort, young sailor

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 text	det
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 text	amod
9	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 provides	nsubj
11	provides	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 text	acl:relcl
12	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 provides	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 sailor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sailor	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sailor	amod
16	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 provides	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 hut	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hut	det
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hut	compound
20	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sailor	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the sacred text		accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent text=Theme
3	provide	present	the sacred text	comfort	the young sailor in the snow hut		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme to sailor=Recipient

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 psalm book his mother sewed into his coat before the ship sailed north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	psalm	psalm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 book	compound
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sewed	nsubj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sewed	nsubj
6	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 coat	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 coat	nmod:poss
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sewed	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 sailed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ship	det
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sailed	nsubj
13	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sewed	advcl
14	north	north	ADV	_	13 sailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past	a psalm book			book's coat			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into coat=Destination
2	sail	past	the ship					north property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Holy Bible, given to him by his grandmother before his departure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bible	det
2	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	3 Bible	compound
3	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Bible	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 given	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 grandmother	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grandmother	nmod:poss
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 departure	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 departure	nmod:poss
13	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle		the Holy Bible not said here	him = he		before his departure	by his grandmother	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	depart		his = he						nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

A prayer book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 book	compound
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

His grandmother's letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandmother	nmod:poss
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 letter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 grandmother	case
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	letter		His grandmother						nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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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