Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

exam: In what manner were the child and the mother recovered from the crevasse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: exam · What happens: be, recover · To what, where: child, manner, crevasse

This is exam question 1 of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» 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	exam	exam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recovered	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
3	In	in	ADP	_	5 manner	case
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 manner	det
5	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 child	obl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 child	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 exam	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mother	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 child	conj
12	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 crevasse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crevasse	det
15	crevasse	crevasse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recovered	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 recovered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	exam and the child and the mother not said here	the child and the mother		what manner			tree rules
2	recover	past	exam and the child and the mother			the crevasse			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from crevasse=Source

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 child was lifted out alive, while the mother could never be recovered from the crevasse

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	aux:pass
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 lifted	compound:prt
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lifted	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 recovered	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 recovered	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mother	det
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 recovered	nsubj:pass
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 recovered	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 recovered	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 recovered	aux:pass
14	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lifted	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 crevasse	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crevasse	det
17	crevasse	crevasse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 recovered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift out	past · passive		the child				alive property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not recover	could · passive		the mother		the crevasse			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from crevasse=Source

Option 2

Only the child was drawn up alive, after the mother had been lost in the depths of the crevasse

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 child	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drawn	aux:pass
5	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 drawn	compound:prt
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drawn	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 lost	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 lost	aux:pass
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 drawn	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 depths	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 depths	det
17	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lost	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 crevasse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crevasse	det
20	crevasse	crevasse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 depths	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw up	past · passive		the child				alive property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lose	past · perfect · passive		the mother		the depths of the crevasse			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The child was raised alive; the mother was not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	aux:pass
4	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 raised	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 raised	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 not	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 mother	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past · passive		the child				alive property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mother=Destination

Option 4

The child lived, and the mother died later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 died	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 died	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the child						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past	the mother					late property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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