Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in…

In which season did Kay and Gerda return to their home town at the close of the tale?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: return · To what, where: close

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 season	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 season	det
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 return	aux
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 return	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Gerda	cc
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Kay	conj
8	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 town	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 town	nmod:poss
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 town	compound
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 close	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 close	det
15	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tale	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tale	det
18	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 return	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past · do-support	Kay and Gerda			the close of the tale	season	to Kay's home town result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result

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

Midsummer, when the whole town was hot and bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hot	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hot	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hot	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hot	cop
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Midsummer	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bright	cc
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whole town					hot property	tree rules
2	be		the whole town not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Early spring, with the first warm flowers blooming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spring	amod
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flowers	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flowers	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 flowers	amod
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flowers	amod
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spring	conj
9	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 flowers	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	gerund	the first warm flowers not said here						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	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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