Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

Which object was shattered upon its descent to the earth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: shatter, descend · To what, where: object

This is exam question 1 of lesson 287 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror shatters and a splinter sticks in Kay» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shattered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shattered	aux:pass
4	shattered	shatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 descent	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 descent	nmod:poss
7	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shattered	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 descent	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 shattered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shatter	past · passive		which object				upon object's descent to the earth	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	descend		object					to the earth	nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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

Mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The magic mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mirror	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mirror	amod
3	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The enchanted glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 glass	det
2	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 glass	amod
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	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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