Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

exam: Which phrase most accurately characterises the Ice Maiden?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: exam · What happens: characteris · To what, where: Ice Maiden

This is exam question 2 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	7 characterises	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 phrase	punct
3	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 phrase	det
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 exam	conj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 accurately	advmod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	7 characterises	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Maiden	det
9	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Maiden	compound
10	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	exam and which phrase	the Ice Maiden				accurately property	tree rules

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

Lady of the frozen lakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 lakes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lakes	det
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lakes	amod
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lady	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Cold queen who rules the glaciers of the Alps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 queen	amod
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 rules	nsubj
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 queen	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glaciers	det
6	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 queen	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Alps	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Alps	det
9	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 glaciers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule		Cold queen the glaciers of the Alps and rules						tree rules

Option 3

Empress of the snowfields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 snowfields	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snowfields	det
4	snowfields	snowfield	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Empress	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Queen of the glaciers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 glaciers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 glaciers	det
4	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Queen	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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