Exam question 4 · Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flo…

What was the material of Thumbelina's mattress, as described?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: mattress

This is exam question 4 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=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 material	det
4	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 mattress	case
6	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mattress	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Thumbelina	case
8	mattress	mattress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 material	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 described	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 described	mark
11	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 mattress	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the material of Thumbelina's mattress						tree rules
2	describe	participle		Thumbelina's mattress not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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

Soft green moss leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	amod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	amod
3	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	compound
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Soft blue petals of a violet flower gathered from the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 petals	amod
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 petals	amod
3	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gathered	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 flower	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flower	det
6	violet	violet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flower	amod
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 petals	nmod
8	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gathered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	Soft blue petals of a violet flower			the field			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from field=Source

Option 3

Thick blue velvet petals of a rare violet from the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 petals	amod
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 petals	amod
3	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 petals	compound
4	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 violet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 violet	det
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 violet	amod
8	violet	violet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 petals	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 violet	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Blue petals of a violet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 petals	amod
2	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 violet	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 violet	det
5	violet	violet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 petals	nmod

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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