Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

What did Karen request the executioner to remove from her body?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Karen · What happens: request, remove · To what, where: executioner, body

This is exam question 2 of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 request	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 request	aux
3	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 request	nsubj
4	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 executioner	det
6	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 request	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 remove	mark
8	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 executioner	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 body	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remove	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 request	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	past · do-support	Karen	the executioner					tree rules
2	remove	to-infinitive	Karen not said here	the executioner not said here		Karen's body			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from body=Source

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

Her hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hat	nmod:poss
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Her arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 arm	nmod:poss
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Her heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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