Exam question 3 · Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda find…
Specify the substance with which the interior of the carriage was lined.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: specify, line · To what, where: substance, interior
This is exam question 3 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 substance | det |
| 3 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lined | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 interior | det |
| 7 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lined | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 carriage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carriage | det |
| 10 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 interior | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lined | aux:pass |
| 12 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 substance | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the substance | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | line | past · passive | the interior of the carriage | with the substance | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme |
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
wool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
lace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
sugar-plums
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plums | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 sugar | punct |
| 3 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
soft red velvet and golden silk threads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 velvet | amod |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 velvet | amod |
| 3 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 threads | cc |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 threads | amod |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threads | compound |
| 7 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 velvet | conj |
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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