Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…

Which entity did the Snow-man regard as hostile to him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: entity · What happens: do · To what, where: Snow man regard

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» 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 entity	det
2	entity	entity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 regard	det
5	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 regard	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Snow	punct
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regard	compound
8	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 hostile	case
10	hostile	hostile	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regard	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hostile	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which entity	the Snow man regard				as hostile to him	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

The sun, which he considered not his friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 considered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 considered	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 considered	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 considered	nsubj
6	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 considered	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 considered	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not consider	past	the sun	sun's friend					vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The yard-dog, which he thought was a harsh enemy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
2	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 yard	punct
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 enemy	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 thought	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dog	acl:relcl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 enemy	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 enemy	det
11	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 enemy	amod
12	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the yard dog						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the yard dog	a harsh enemy					tree rules

Option 3

The cold, which he thought was a foe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 foe	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 thought	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cold	acl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 foe	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 foe	det
9	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the cold						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the cold	a foe					tree rules

Option 4

The sun, which he considered not his friend, since it kept melting his head and arms away all day

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 considered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 considered	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 considered	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 considered	nsubj
6	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 considered	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 considered	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 kept	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 considered	conj
14	melting	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 away	csubj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 melting	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 arms	cc
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 head	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	13 kept	advmod
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not consider	past	the sun	sun's friend			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute
2	keep	past	friend		day	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	melt	gerund		sun's head and arms			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient head=Result

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