Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

In what manner did the mice regard the tree's account of its youth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mice, tree · What happens: do, regard, account · To what, where: manner, account, youth

This is exam question 2 of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mice	det
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 regard	nsubj
7	regard	regard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 account	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 tree	case
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 regard	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 youth	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 youth	nmod:poss
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 account	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past			what manner	tree rules
2	regard	present	the mice	the tree's account of account's youth		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
3	account		the tree	account's youth		nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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

with delight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	2 delight	case
2	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

with some interest and care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 interest	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 interest	det
3	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 care	cc
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 interest	conj

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

Option 3

with much surprise and fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 surprise	case
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 surprise	amod
3	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fear	cc
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 surprise	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

with great attention and delight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 attention	case
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 attention	amod
3	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 delight	cc
5	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attention	conj

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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