Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come…

Which of the following describes the state in which Kay and Gerda found their grandmother's room?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kay · What happens: follow, describe, find · To what, where: state, room

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 describes	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 describes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 describes	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 describes	nsubj
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 state	det
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 found	obl
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Gerda	cc
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Kay	conj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 state	acl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 grandmother	nmod:poss
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 room	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 grandmother	case
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the state		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme
3	find	past	Kay and Gerda	Kay's grandmother's room	the state	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Exactly as it had stood formerly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 stood	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	aux
5	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect · passive		it				exactly, formerly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2

Empty and dusty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dusty	cc
3	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Empty	conj

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

Option 3

Dusty, but as it had stood before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 stood	cc
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 stood	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stood	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	aux
7	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Dusty	conj
8	before	before	ADV	_	7 stood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect · passive		it				before property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 4

Quite changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quite	quite	ADV	_	2 changed	advmod
2	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	participle							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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