Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…

With reference to the passage, identify the specific object upon which the Lapland woman wrote her written message to the Finland woman.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Lapland woman · What happens: identify, write · To what, where: specific object, written message, her

This is exam question 2 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	7 identify	obl
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	_	2 reference	punct
7	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 object	det
9	specific	specific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 object	amod
10	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wrote	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 woman	compound
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrote	nsubj
16	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 object	acl:relcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrote	iobj
18	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 message	amod
19	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrote	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 woman	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 woman	compound
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 message	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the specific object		with reference to the passage	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	write	past	the Lapland woman	written message	her = she	upon the specific object; to the Finland woman	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient message=Topic
3	write	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

a dried haberdine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 haberdine	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 haberdine	amod
3	haberdine	haberdine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a long strip of birch bark dried by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 strip	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 strip	amod
3	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bark	case
5	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bark	compound
6	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strip	nmod
7	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 strip	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle		a long strip of birch bark not said here				by the fire	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

a smoked salmon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 salmon	det
2	smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 salmon	amod
3	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	participle							vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a dried herring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 herring	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 herring	amod
3	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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