Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

By what name did the spirit of the flower determine that Thumbelina should henceforth be known?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, know · To what, where: spirit, Thumbelina

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 name	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 name	nsubj
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spirit	det
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 determine	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 determine	det
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 determine	compound
10	determine	determine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spirit	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 known	obj
12	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 known	nsubj:pass
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 known	aux
14	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	16 known	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 known	aux:pass
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 determine	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the spirit of the flower determine				by name	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Eventuality
2	know	should · passive		Thumbelina				henceforth property	tree rules

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

Dew Drop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dew	Dew	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Drop	Drop	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Dew	flat

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

May Blossom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Blossom	aux
2	Blossom	blossom	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blossom	may							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Spring Daisy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Spring	appos

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

Option 4

Bloom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bloom	bloom	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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