Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…

Who, according to the passage, conveyed the girl's soul up to God?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accord, convey up · To what, where: soul, God

This is exam question 3 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 conveyed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 conveyed	punct
3	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 passage	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 according	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 passage	det
6	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conveyed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 passage	punct
8	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 soul	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 girl	case
12	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conveyed	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	8 conveyed	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 God	case
15	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 conveyed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 conveyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	convey up	past		the girl's soul	God			accord the passage	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent soul=Topic to god=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

her deceased grandmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 deceased	nsubj
2	deceased	decease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deceased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decease	past	her = she	grandmother					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

her deceased grandmother who had loved her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 deceased	nsubj
2	deceased	decease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deceased	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 loved	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loved	aux
6	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grandmother	acl:relcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decease	past	her = she	grandmother					tree rules
2	love	past · perfect · passive		grandmother					tree rules

Option 3

the angels who lived in the sky above the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 angels	det
2	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 angels	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sky	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 city	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the angels			the sky		above the city	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location

Option 4

the falling star itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 star	amod
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 star	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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