Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…
Which character is described as having "a crown of hardened ice and polished fir-cones"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, have, harden, polish, crown · To what, where: character, crown, hardened ice
This is exam question 1 of lesson 823 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills» 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 character | det |
| 2 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 described | aux:pass |
| 4 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 having | mark |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 described | advcl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 crown | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crown | det |
| 9 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 having | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ice | case |
| 11 | hardened | harden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ice | amod |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crown | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cones | cc |
| 14 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cones | amod |
| 15 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cones | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fir | punct |
| 17 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crown | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 crown | punct |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 described | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | which character | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | a crown of hardened ice and polished fir cones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | |||||
| 3 | harden in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | polish in a quote | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | crown in a quote | hardened ice | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 water-god
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 god | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 god | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 water | punct |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The old goblin's youngest son from the Dovre mountains and the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goblin | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goblin | amod |
| 3 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 goblin | case |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 mountains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountains | det |
| 9 | Dovre | Dovre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mountains | compound |
| 10 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 son | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sea | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The seventh daughter, the witch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 2 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The old goblin from the Dovre mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goblin | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goblin | amod |
| 3 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountains | det |
| 6 | Dovre | Dovre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mountains | compound |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goblin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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