Exam question 4 · Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda find…

State the reason the second Raven could not accompany Gerda.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second Raven · What happens: not accompany · To what, where: Gerda

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reason	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Raven	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 Raven	amod
6	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accompany	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 accompany	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 accompany	advmod
9	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reason	acl:relcl
10	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 accompany	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not accompany	could	the second Raven	Gerda					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=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

a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a headache from eating too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 headache	det
2	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 headache	acl
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	a headache not said here	much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

Option 3

he had lost his way

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	3 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	he	his way					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

Option 4

he was too frightened of the dark

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	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 frightened	advmod
4	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · passive		he				of the dark; frightened property	tree rules

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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