Exam question 2 · Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow…

To what substance is the Snow-daughter reduced at the close of the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, reduce · To what, where: Snow daughter, close

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1724 «Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow girl and a fire boy grow up, and their meeting with the King ends in ruin for all three» 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 substance	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 substance	nsubj
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 daughter	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daughter	det
6	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Snow	punct
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 daughter	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 close	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 close	det
12	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reduced	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 narrative	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 close	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 daughter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Snow daughter				to substance	tree rules
2	reduce	participle		the Snow daughter not said here		the close of the narrative			vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer

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

Mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A puddle of cold water on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 puddle	det
2	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puddle	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puddle	nmod

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

Option 3

Ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	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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