Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca…
Which phrase describes the Snow-queen's kiss?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: phrase, Snow queen · What happens: describe, kiss · To what, where: kiss
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1625 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is carried off by the Snow-queen, and Gerda finds the witch's garden» 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 phrase | det |
| 2 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | nsubj |
| 3 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 5 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 queen | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Snow | punct |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 9 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 describes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | which phrase | the Snow queen's kiss | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kiss | the Snow queen | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
As cold as ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 cold | case |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 ice | case |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cold | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Like a hot bath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 bath | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bath | det |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bath | amod |
| 4 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Like sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 sun | case |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Very warm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 warm | advmod |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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