Exam question 1 · Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flo…

What, according to the text, did the old Witch sell to the woman?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old Witch · What happens: accord, sell · To what, where: text, woman

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1740 «Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flower and a toad tries to steal her» 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=Rel	12 sell	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
3	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 What	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 text	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 text	det
6	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 according	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sell	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Witch	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Witch	amod
11	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sell	nsubj
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 woman	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sell	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund						to the text goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to text=Goal
2	sell	past · do-support	the old Witch		the woman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

A barley-corn not sown by farmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 corn	det
2	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 corn	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 barley	punct
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sown	nsubj:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sown	advmod
6	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 farmers	case
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sown	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sow	participle · passive	farmers	a barley corn					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

A barley-corn not sown by farmers, grown in a secret garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 corn	det
2	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 corn	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 barley	punct
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sown	nsubj:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sown	advmod
6	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 farmers	case
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sown	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grown	punct
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sown	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 garden	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 garden	det
13	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 garden	amod
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sow	participle · passive	farmers	a barley corn					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	grow	participle	farmers not said here			a secret garden			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A barley grain grown by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grain	det
2	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grain	compound
3	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grain	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 hand	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle		a barley grain not said here				by hand	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hand=Location

Option 4

A barley-corn not sown by farmers but found in the woods near town

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 corn	det
2	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 corn	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 barley	punct
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sown	nsubj:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sown	advmod
6	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 farmers	case
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sown	obl:agent
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sown	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 woods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woods	det
13	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	obl
14	near	near	ADP	_	15 town	case
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sow	participle · passive	farmers	a barley corn					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	find	participle	farmers not said here			the woods		near town	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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