Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

In what manner did the fragments affect the vision of those into whose eyes they lodged?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fragments · What happens: do, affect, lodge · To what, where: manner, vision, eyes

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	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 fragments	det
6	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 affect	nsubj
7	affect	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vision	det
9	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 affect	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 those	case
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 vision	nmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 those	nmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lodged	nsubj
16	lodged	lodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eyes	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past			what manner	tree rules
2	affect	present	the fragments	the vision of those		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vision=Experiencer
3	lodge	past	fragments = fragment	eyes not said here		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme eye=Location

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

They warped the things seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warped	nsubj
2	warped	warp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 things	det
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warped	obj
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 things	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warp	past	They	the things					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	see	participle		the things not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They perverted what was seen, making good things look ugly to the eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 perverted	nsubj
2	perverted	pervert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 seen	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 perverted	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 making	punct
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 perverted	advcl
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 making	xcomp
11	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 eye	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eye	det
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pervert	past	They		tree rules
2	see	past · passive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	make	gerund	They not said here		tree rules
4	look	present	good things	to the eye; ugly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to eye=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They perverted what was seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 perverted	nsubj
2	perverted	pervert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 seen	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 perverted	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pervert	past	They						tree rules
2	see	past · passive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 4

They perverted what was seen by everyone who looked through them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 perverted	nsubj
2	perverted	pervert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 seen	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 perverted	ccomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 seen	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 everyone	acl:relcl
10	through	through	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pervert	past	They		tree rules
2	see	past · passive	everyone		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
3	look	past		through them = they	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through they=Theme

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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