Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and…

Which of the following describes the object into which the fir-tree's remaining substance was transformed at the close of its existence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: follow, describe, transform, exist · To what, where: object, remaining substance

This is exam question 1 of lesson 827 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and the flax becomes linen and then paper» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 describes	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 describes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 describes	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 describes	nsubj
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 object	det
7	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 transformed	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
11	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 fir	punct
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 substance	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 tree	case
15	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 substance	amod
16	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 transformed	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 transformed	aux:pass
18	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 object	acl:relcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 close	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 close	det
21	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 transformed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 existence	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 existence	nmod:poss
24	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the object			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
3	transform	past · passive		the fir tree's remaining substance	the object	at the close of substance's existence	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into which=Result
4	exist		substance				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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

warm ashes lying in the grate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ashes	amod
2	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ashes	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 grate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grate	det
6	grate	grate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	warm ashes not said here			the grate			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grate=Location

Option 2

burnt ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ashes	amod
2	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

ashes consumed in the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 ashes	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consumed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	participle		ashes not said here		the fire			vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a heap of soot in the chimney

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 soot	case
4	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heap	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chimney	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chimney	det
7	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heap	nmod

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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