Exam question 2 · Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then mel…

What was the fate of the child Snowflake upon the occasion of the Midsummer fire?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, occasion · To what, where: fate, Midsummer fire

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1637 «Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then melts at Midsummer» 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	4 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fate	det
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
8	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 child	appos
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 occasion	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 occasion	det
11	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 child	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 fire	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
14	Midsummer	Midsummer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fire	compound
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 occasion	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the fate				of the child upon the occasion of the Midsummer fire	tree rules
2	occasion			the Midsummer fire					nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient

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

She melted away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 melted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt away	past	She					away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She dissolved into a faint vapour that rose into the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dissolved	nsubj
2	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 vapour	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vapour	det
5	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vapour	amod
6	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dissolved	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vapour	acl:relcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 air	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	participle	She					into a faint vapour result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into vapour=Result
2	rise	past	a faint vapour			the air			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She fell asleep on the grass near the flames quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 flames	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flames	det
9	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
10	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	She			the grass		near the flames; asleep, quietly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on grass=Location

Option 4

She went back into the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 snow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snow	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	She			the snow			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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