Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

exam: Which creature does Ajola describe as travelling inside a post-chaise?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: exam · What happens: describe, travel · To what, where: post-chaise

This is exam question 4 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 describe	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct
3	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 creature	det
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 describe	aux
6	Ajola	Ajola	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 describe	nsubj
7	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 travelling	mark
9	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 describe	advcl
10	inside	inside	ADP	_	12 post-chaise	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 post-chaise	det
12	post-chaise	post-chaise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travelling	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · do-support	exam						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	travel	gerund	exam not said here			a post-chaise			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside post-chaise=Trajectory

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 little old dog that talks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 talks	nsubj
6	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dog	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	a little old dog						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A little dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The postilion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 postilion	det
2	postilion	postilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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