Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

Which plant did the sister place the head beneath, in her chamber?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plant · What happens: do · To what, where: sister place

This is exam question 4 of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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 plant	det
2	plant	plant	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 place	det
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	compound
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl:unmarked
9	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chamber	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 chamber	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chamber	nmod:poss
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which plant	the sister place				the head obl:unmarked; beneath property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality

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

a rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rose	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a violet bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bush	det
2	violet	violet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bush	amod
3	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 leaf	det
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a jasmine twig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 twig	det
2	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twig	compound
3	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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