Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come…
In which place did Gerda first find Kay?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gerda · What happens: find · To what, where: Kay, place
This is exam question 1 of lesson 294 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come home, then a jumping contest begins» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 5 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 find | advmod |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · do-support | Gerda | Kay | which place | first property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kay=Topic |
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
A cold cave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cave | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cave | amod |
| 3 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The cold, empty halls of the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 halls | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 halls | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cold | punct |
| 4 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 halls | amod |
| 5 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 halls | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The cold, dark halls of the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 halls | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 halls | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cold | punct |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 halls | amod |
| 5 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 halls | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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