Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

In what manner did the thorn-bush reveal the path to the mother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: bush reveal, manner

This is exam question 1 of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reveal	det
6	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bush	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 thorn	punct
8	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reveal	compound
9	reveal	reveal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 mother	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the bush reveal		what manner		to the mother	tree rules

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

in return for warmth at her heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 return	case
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 warmth	case
4	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	nmod

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

Option 2

in return for warmth at her heart and a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 return	case
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 warmth	case
4	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 song	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 song	det
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	conj

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

Option 3

in return for warmth from her own heart and blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 return	case
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 warmth	case
4	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 heart	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heart	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heart	amod
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blood	cc
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heart	conj

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

Option 4

by asking for her black hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 asking	mark
2	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 hair	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						for her black hair	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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