Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda lea…

To which region did the wood-pigeons state that the Snow-queen had travelled?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wood pigeons, Snow queen · What happens: do, state, travell

This is exam question 4 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 region	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pigeons	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pigeons	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 wood	punct
8	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 state	nsubj
9	state	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 travelled	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 queen	det
12	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 queen	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Snow	punct
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 travelled	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 travelled	aux
16	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 state	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past		to which region	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	state speech: other	present	the wood pigeons		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	travell	past · perfect	the Snow queen		tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

The far northern lands of Lapland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lands	det
2	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lands	amod
3	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lands	amod
4	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Lapland	case
6	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lands	nmod

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

Option 2

Spitzbergen island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spitzbergen	Spitzbergen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 island	compound
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lapland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Finland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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