Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca…

What does Gerda find on the old woman's hat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gerda · What happens: find · To what, where: hat

This is exam question 4 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	4 find	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	10 hat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hat	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 woman	case
10	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · do-support	Gerda			the old woman's hat			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ✓ the right answer

A rose that was overlooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rose	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 overlooked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overlooked	aux:pass
5	overlooked	overlook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rose	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overlook	past · passive		a rose					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A gold sun over the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 path	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	nmod

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

Option 3

A ribbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ribbon	det
2	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A rose left by the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rose	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rose	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		a rose not said here				by the wall	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by wall=Location

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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