Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

What was the effect of the glass lodged in Kay's heart upon his conduct towards Gerda?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: effect · What happens: be, lodge, effect, conduct · To what, where: heart, glass

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 lodged	obj
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 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lodged	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 glass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glass	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 effect	nmod
8	lodged	lodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 heart	case
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 heart	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Kay	case
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lodged	obl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 conduct	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 conduct	nmod:poss
15	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lodged	obl
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	17 Gerda	case
17	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 conduct	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lodged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past					tree rules
2	lodge	past	the effect of the glass		Kay's heart	upon effect's conduct towards Gerda	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location
3	effect			the glass			nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
4	conduct		effect			towards Gerda	nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent towards=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 · ← Mova's choice

He teased her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teased	nsubj
2	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	past	He	her = she					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

It made him laugh at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	him = he					tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	him = he not said here					at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It caused him to tease her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tease	mark
5	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caused	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tease	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	It		him = he				tree rules
2	tease	to-infinitive		her = she					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

It made him mock her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mock	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	him = he					tree rules
2	mock	infinitive	him = he not said here	her = she					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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