Exam question 4 · Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends…
Which of the following correctly records the food provided to Gerda by the robber maiden for her journey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gerda · What happens: follow, record, provide, journey · To what, where: food, Gerda
This is exam question 4 of lesson 292 «Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 19: the robber maiden sends Gerda north to Lapland on a reindeer» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 following | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 following | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 following | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 6 records | advmod |
| 6 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 following | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 food | det |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 records | obj |
| 9 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 food | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Gerda | case |
| 11 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 provided | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 maiden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 14 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maiden | compound |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 provided | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 journey | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maiden | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 following | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | record | present | the food | correctly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | provide | participle | the food not said here | Gerda | by the robber maiden for Gerda's journey | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gerda=Recipient | |||
| 4 | journey | Gerda | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 ham
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ham | det |
| 2 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Two loaves of bread and a ham
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 loaves | nummod |
| 2 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bread | case |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loaves | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ham | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ham | det |
| 7 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loaves | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Some bread and cheese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 bread | det |
| 2 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cheese | cc |
| 4 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bread | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A loaf of bread and some fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 loaf | det |
| 2 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bread | case |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loaf | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fish | cc |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loaf | 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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