Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

To which country do the galoshes first convey the young Divine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: galoshes · What happens: do, convey · To what, where: young Divine

This is exam question 3 of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 country	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 galoshes	det
6	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 convey	nsubj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 convey	advmod
8	convey	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Divine	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Divine	amod
11	Divine	Divine	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 convey	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present						to which country	tree rules
2	convey	present	the galoshes	the young Divine				first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent divine=Topic

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

Switzerland and the Alps beyond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Alps	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Alps	det
4	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Switzerland	conj
5	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	1 Switzerland	advmod

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

Option 2

the high Alps of Switzerland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Alps	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Alps	amod
3	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Switzerland	case
5	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Alps	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Switzerland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Netherlands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	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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