Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda lea…

What did the Finland woman assert was the cause of Kay's continued contentment in the Snow-queen's domain?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Finland woman, Kay · What happens: do, assert, be, continue, content · To what, where: cause, domain

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1627 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda leaves the robbers and rides a reindeer north» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 woman	compound
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cause	nsubj
6	assert	assert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 woman	acl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cause	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cause	det
9	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 contentment	case
11	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 contentment	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Kay	case
13	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 contentment	amod
14	contentment	contentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cause	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	21 domain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 queen	det
17	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 queen	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Snow	punct
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 domain	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 queen	case
21	domain	domain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 contentment	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	assert	infinitive	the Finland woman not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the Finland woman	the cause		of Kay's continued contentment in the Snow queen's domain	tree rules
4	continue	participle					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	content		Kay		the Snow queen's domain		nom contentment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

Frost in his eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 eye	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eye	nmod:poss
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Frost	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A splinter of glass lodged in his heart and eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 splinter	det
2	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 glass	case
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splinter	nmod
5	lodged	lodge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 splinter	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 heart	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heart	nmod:poss
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lodged	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eye	cc
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heart	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lodge	participle		a splinter of glass not said here		his heart and eye			vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location

Option 3

A splinter of ice in his heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 splinter	det
2	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ice	case
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splinter	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splinter	nmod

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

Option 4

A shard of glass stuck in his eye and chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shard	det
2	shard	shard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 glass	case
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shard	nmod
5	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shard	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 eye	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eye	nmod:poss
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chest	cc
10	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eye	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		a shard of glass not said here		his eye and chest			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in eye=Destination

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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