Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…

In what condition did the girl find herself upon awakening in the morning?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: find, awaken · To what, where: girl, condition

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1419 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6: the girl lights a candle, the prince flees, and she searches the winds» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	nsubj
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 find	obj
9	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	10 awakening	mark
10	awakening	awaken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 find	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 awakening	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	the girl	girl		what condition			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
2	awaken	gerund	the girl not said here				morning		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

alone on a green patch in a wood, with her old bag beside her

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 patch	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 patch	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 patch	det
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 patch	amod
5	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 patch	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bag	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 bag	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bag	nmod:poss
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bag	amod
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 patch	conj
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bag	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

alone on a green patch in a wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 patch	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 patch	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 patch	det
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 patch	amod
5	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 patch	nmod

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

Option 3

alone and cold on a green patch in a dark, quiet wood far from home

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cold	cc
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 alone	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 patch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 patch	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 patch	amod
7	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 alone	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	13 wood	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wood	det
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dark	punct
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 patch	nmod
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 home	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wood	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

alone by a cold river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	alone	alone	ADV	_	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 river	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 river	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 river	amod
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 alone	obl

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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