Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza fl…

Which phenomenon did Eliza observe in the sky, and how did she come to understand it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phenomenon, Eliza · What happens: observe, come, understand · To what, where: sky, phenomenon

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1022 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza flies over the sea and waits on a tiny rock» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 phenomenon	det
2	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 observe	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 observe	aux
4	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 observe	nsubj
5	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 observe	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 come	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 observe	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 understand	mark
16	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 understand	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 observe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	observe	past · do-support	which phenomenon		the sky	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · do-support	Eliza			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	understand	to-infinitive	Eliza not said here	phenomenon		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 rainbow over the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rainbow	det
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rainbow	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A cloud palace, which she later perceived to be a sea mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 palace	det
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 palace	compound
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perceived	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 perceived	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 perceived	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 perceived	nsubj
7	later	later	ADV	_	8 perceived	advmod
8	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	13 mist	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 mist	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mist	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mist	compound
13	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perceived	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	a cloud palace					later property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
2	is a	to-infinitive	a cloud palace not said here	a sea mist					tree rules

Option 3

A storm at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 sea	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 storm	nmod

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

Option 4

A fleet of ships, which she later took to be a dream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fleet	det
2	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ships	case
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fleet	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 took	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 took	advmod
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	13 dream	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dream	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dream	det
13	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	a fleet of ships					late property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		a dream					tree rules

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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