Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…
On which day did the young girl perish from the cold, according to the text?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: young girl · What happens: do, perish, accord · To what, where: cold
This is exam question 1 of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | 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 | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 perish | nsubj |
| 8 | perish | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cold | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cold | det |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 perish | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 text | punct |
| 13 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 text | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 according | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 text | det |
| 16 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cold | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | perish | present | the young girl | the cold and the text | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from cold=Causer | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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
the last day of the old year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Christmas Day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Day | compound |
| 2 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
midwinter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | midwinter | midwinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the first day of spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 spring | case |
| 5 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | 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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