Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches In…

Pursuant to the narrative, in what manner was Rudy's bearing described as he approached the town?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: manner, Rudy · What happens: be, describe, approach · To what, where: bearing, narrative, town

This is exam question 1 of lesson 857 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches Interlachen, wins the shooting match and meets Babette again» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bearing	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 bearing	obl
8	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bearing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bearing	cop
10	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bearing	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Rudy	case
12	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	appos
13	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bearing	acl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 approached	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 approached	nsubj
16	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 described	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 approached	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	manner	Rudy's bearing	the narrative	tree rules
2	describe	participle		Rudy's bearing not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	approach	past	Rudy	the town		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

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

as a man who has sold his cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sold	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	nsubj:pass
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sold	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sold	aux
6	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cattle	nmod:poss
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · perfect · passive		a man					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient cattle=Theme

Option 2

with a quick step, as a hunter does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	4 step	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 step	det
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 step	amod
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 step	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 hunter	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hunter	det
8	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 step	nmod
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present						with a quick step as a hunter	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

slowly and sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sadly	cc
3	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	1 slowly	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

with lightness, as one free and light as a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	2 lightness	case
2	lightness	lightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 free	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lightness	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 free	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 free	nummod
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 light	cc
8	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 free	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 bird	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 free	obl

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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