Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…

Under what condition was Gerda conducted towards the sleeping-room?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition Gerda · What happens: be, conduct · To what, where: condition Gerda, sleeping room

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1626 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda learns Kay is at a princess's palace and sneaks in, only to find the wrong boy» 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	Under	under	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Gerda	compound
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Gerda	cop
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 conducted	nsubj
6	conducted	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
9	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sleeping	punct
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conducted	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		condition Gerda					tree rules
2	conduct	past	condition Gerda			the sleeping room			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards room=Destination

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

Up the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADP	_	3 stairs	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stairs	det
3	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Along the garden wall at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Along	along	ADP	_	4 wall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wall	compound
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wall	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was led by the crow along a back-stair

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 led	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	aux:pass
3	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 crow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crow	det
6	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
7	along	along	ADP	_	11 stair	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stair	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stair	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 back	punct
11	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past · passive	the crow	She		a back stair			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme along stair=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She walked alone through the great front door

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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	8 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
7	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	She			the great front door		alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Trajectory

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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