Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in…
Which companion did the reindeer leave at the green fields before departing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: companion, reindeer · What happens: do, leave, depart · To what, where: green fields
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1628 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in the ice palace and they walk home to summer» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 companion | det |
| 2 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reindeer | det |
| 5 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fields | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fields | amod |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leave | obl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 departing | mark |
| 12 | departing | depart | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 leave | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which companion | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | present | the reindeer | the green fields | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at field=Location | ||||
| 3 | depart | gerund | the reindeer not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 old woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Gerda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Gerda and Kay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Kay | cc |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gerda | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Kay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kay | Kay | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1628-pg5615-part17/e2/