Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…
Which object did the poor girl retain after she had examined the wonderful plant?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: retain, examine · To what, where: girl
This is exam question 2 of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retain | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 retain | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retain | nsubj |
| 7 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 examined | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 examined | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 examined | aux |
| 11 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 retain | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 plant | det |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plant | amod |
| 14 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 examined | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 retain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | past · do-support | which object | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | examine | past · perfect · passive | girl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme plant=Attribute |
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
A small green stem
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stem | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stem | amod |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stem | amod |
| 4 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A single green leaf and a small piece of its root
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | amod |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | amod |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 piece | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 root | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 root | nmod:poss |
| 11 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A single green leaf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | amod |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | amod |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A single green leaf from the wonderful plant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | amod |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | amod |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 plant | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plant | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plant | amod |
| 8 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | 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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