Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

Which of the following best describes the setting in which the sailors pass their long winter night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailors · What happens: follow, describe, pass · To what, where: setting

This is exam question 3 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	6 describes	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 best	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 best	case
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 describes	nmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 setting	det
8	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describes	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 pass	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sailors	det
12	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pass	nsubj
13	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 setting	acl:relcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 night	nmod:poss
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 night	amod
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 night	compound
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the setting			of the best	tree rules
3	pass	present	the sailors		the setting	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location

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

Wooden huts by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 huts	amod
2	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 huts	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Snow-built huts shaped like bee-hives, lit by the northern lights

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Snow	punct
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 huts	amod
4	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 huts	acl
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 hives	case
7	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hives	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bee	punct
9	hives	hive	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shaped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lit	punct
11	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 huts	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 lights	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lights	det
14	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lights	amod
15	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	participle			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	shape	participle	built huts not said here	like bee hives	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	lit	participle	built huts not said here	by the northern lights	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Tents of cloth on the open ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 cloth	case
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tents	nmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 ice	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ice	det
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ice	amod
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tents	nmod

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

Option 4

Ships in the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 ice	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ice	det
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ships	nmod

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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