Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…

According to the text, which elfin daughter is the one who refuses to marry unless she is permitted to go to Norway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: text, one · What happens: accord, be, refuse, not marry, permit, go · To what, where: one, she, Norway

This is exam question 3 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 text	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 one	nsubj
7	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	compound
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 text	appos
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 refuses	nsubj
13	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 marry	mark
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 refuses	xcomp
16	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	19 permitted	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 permitted	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 permitted	aux:pass
19	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 marry	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 permitted	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Norway	case
23	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the text	the one		tree rules
3	refuse	present	the one			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not marry	to-infinitive	the one not said here			tree rules
5	permit a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		she		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive			Norway	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to norway=Initial_Location

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 seventh daughter

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

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

Option 2

The third

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The fourth daughter

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	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 daughter	amod
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The sixth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sixth	det
2	sixth	sixth	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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