Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…

With reference to the passage, state precisely in which location the Finland woman stated that the Snow Queen's garden begins.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Finland woman, garden · What happens: state, begin · To what, where: passage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 293 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda gets help in Finland, then walks on alone among living snowflakes» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
8	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	11 location	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 location	case
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 location	det
11	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	nmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 woman	compound
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stated	nsubj
15	stated	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passage	acl:relcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 begins	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Queen	det
18	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Queen	compound
19	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 garden	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Queen	case
21	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begins	nsubj
22	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stated	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	past	the Finland woman	the passage and state in which location not said here					tree rules
2	begin	present	the Snow Queen's garden						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

two miles hence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	hence	hence	ADV	_	2 miles	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

two miles hence from the bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hence	obl:unmarked
3	hence	hence	ADV	_	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bush	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bush	det
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hence	obl

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

Option 3

a mile past the frozen river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mile	det
2	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	past	past	ADP	_	6 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 river	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mile	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

at the far edge of the great forest, two miles hence from the bush

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	4 edge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 edge	det
3	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 edge	amod
4	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forest	amod
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 edge	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 miles	punct
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 miles	nummod
11	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 edge	conj
12	hence	hence	ADV	_	11 miles	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 bush	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bush	det
15	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hence	obl

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

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