Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in…

What did the young fir-tree dislike about the little peasant children who visited the wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little peasant children · What happens: do, visit · To what, where: young tree dislike, wood

This is exam question 4 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	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	8 dislike	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dislike	amod
5	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 fir	punct
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dislike	compound
8	dislike	dislike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	13 children	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 children	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
12	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dislike	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 visited	nsubj
15	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 children	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 visited	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the young tree dislike				about the little peasant children	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dislike=Eventuality
2	visit	past	the little peasant children	the wood					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Co-Agent

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

They pulled its branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 branches	nmod:poss
4	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pulled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	They	its branches					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They called it a little one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	They	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3

They ignored it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	They	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

They called it a little one and pulled its needles off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pulled	cc
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 needles	nmod:poss
10	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pulled	obj
11	off	off	ADV	_	8 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	They	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	pull off	past	They not said here	its needles				off property	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Eventuality

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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