Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca…

Why did the old woman keep Gerda in her garden?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: keep · To what, where: Gerda, garden

This is exam question 2 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 garden	nmod:poss
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the old woman	Gerda		woman's garden			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme in garden=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

She wished to keep Gerda with her so she could never leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 leave	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leave	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 leave	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 leave	advmod
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	She			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	Gerda	with Gerda	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme
3	not leave	could	Gerda			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She liked Gerda's singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 singing	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Gerda	case
5	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	She	Gerda's singing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot singing=Theme
2	sing		Gerda						nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

She missed her own daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 missed	nsubj
2	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	She	her own daughter					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She wished to keep Gerda with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	She						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	Gerda				with Gerda	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme

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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