Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca…

What is said of the old woman's character?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 said	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 character	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 character	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 woman	case
9	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive						of the old woman's character	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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 was wicked

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	3 wicked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wicked	cop
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					wicked property	tree rules

Option 2

She was cruel and very sly

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	3 cruel	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cruel	cop
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sly	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sly	advmod
6	sly	sly	ADV	_	3 cruel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					cruel property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was a witch but not wicked

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	4 witch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 witch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 wicked	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wicked	advmod
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a witch					tree rules
2	not be		She not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She was a kind old friend

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	6 friend	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 friend	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	amod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a kind old friend					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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