Exam question 1 · Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda find…

Identify the object which the Raven conveyed to Gerda from the kitchen.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Raven · What happens: identify, convey · To what, where: object, Gerda, kitchen

This is exam question 1 of lesson 291 «Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda finds a Prince, then robbers seize her» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 conveyed	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Raven	det
6	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 conveyed	nsubj
7	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 object	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Gerda	case
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 conveyed	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 kitchen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kitchen	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conveyed	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	convey	past	the Raven	the object	Gerda	the kitchen			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to gerda=Destination from kitchen=Initial_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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a roll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 roll	det
2	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

bun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a plate of sausages and a jug of milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plate	det
2	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sausages	case
4	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plate	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jug	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jug	det
7	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sausages	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 milk	case
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jug	nmod

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

Option 4

a warm buttered roll from the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 roll	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roll	amod
3	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 roll	amod
4	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roll	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	butter	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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