Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

Which gift did the parent snails bestow upon the young couple at their marriage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gift, parent snails, snails · What happens: do, bestow, marry

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snails	det
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snails	compound
6	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bestow	nsubj
7	bestow	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 couple	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 couple	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 couple	amod
11	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bestow	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 marriage	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 marriage	nmod:poss
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 couple	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	which gift		tree rules
2	bestow	present	the parent snails	upon the young couple at snails's marriage	tree rules
3	marry		snails = snail		nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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

a fine stone house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the whole field of nettles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 field	amod
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nettles	case
5	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 field	nmod

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

Option 3

the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the whole forest of burdocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forest	amod
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 burdocks	case
5	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forest	nmod

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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