Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

Upon what occasion did the field-mouse declare that Thumbelina should be married within four weeks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: occasion · What happens: do, marry · To what, where: mouse declare

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 declare	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouse	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 field	punct
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 declare	compound
9	declare	declare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 married	nsubj:pass
11	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 married	nsubj:pass
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 married	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 married	aux:pass
14	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 declare	acl:relcl
15	within	within	ADP	_	17 weeks	case
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 weeks	nummod
17	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 married	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	occasion	the mouse declare					tree rules
2	marry	should · passive		the mouse declare			week		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

when the snow covered the field and the stubble was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 covered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snow	det
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj
4	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gone	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stubble	det
9	stubble	stubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	cop
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 covered	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	the snow	the field					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Destination
2	is	past	the stubble					gone property	tree rules

Option 2

once the swallow had flown back to Denmark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	once	once	SCONJ	_	5 flown	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallow	det
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flown	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flown	aux
5	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 flown	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Denmark	case
8	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 flown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly back	past · perfect · passive		the swallow	Denmark				vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to denmark=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

on the day of the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 spring	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spring	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

upon the arrival of autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 arrival	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arrival	det
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 autumn	case
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrival	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive		autumn						nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent

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