Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…
What was the nature of the gift which enabled Thumbelina to travel from flower to flower?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature, gift · What happens: be, enable, travel · To what, where: Thumbelina, flower
This is exam question 3 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 | 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 nature | det |
| 4 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gift | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gift | det |
| 7 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nature | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 enabled | nsubj |
| 9 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gift | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 enabled | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 travel | mark |
| 12 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 enabled | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 flower | case |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travel | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 flower | case |
| 16 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travel | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the nature of the gift | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enable | past | the gift | Thumbelina | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | the gift not said here | flower | to flower | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to flower=Destination |
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
a cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a pair of wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wings | case |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pair | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a golden necklace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 necklace | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 necklace | amod |
| 3 | necklace | necklace | 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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