Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

Which objects did Rudy carry over the mountains on his homeward journey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rudy · What happens: object, carry, journey · To what, where: mountains

This is exam question 1 of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 objects	nsubj
2	objects	object	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	advcl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
4	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 mountains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountains	det
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 journey	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 journey	nmod:poss
11	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 journey	compound
12	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	object speech: other	present				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	past · do-support	Rudy	the mountains	on Rudy's homeward journey	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	journey		Rudy			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 right answer

three silver cups, two handsome pistols, and a silver coffee-pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cups	nummod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	compound
3	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pistols	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pistols	nummod
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pistols	amod
7	pistols	pistol	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cups	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pot	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pot	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pot	det
11	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pot	amod
12	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pot	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 coffee	punct
14	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	conj

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

Option 2

three silver cups, two handsome pistols, a silver coffee-pot, a silver tray, a bundle of furs, and the eagle's old nest

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cups	nummod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	compound
3	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pistols	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pistols	nummod
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pistols	amod
7	pistols	pistol	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cups	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pot	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pot	det
10	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pot	amod
11	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 coffee	punct
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tray	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tray	det
16	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tray	compound
17	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bundle	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bundle	det
20	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tray	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 furs	case
22	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bundle	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nest	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nest	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 eagle	det
26	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nest	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 eagle	case
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nest	amod
29	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	conj

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

Option 3

three silver cups, two handsome pistols, a silver coffee-pot, a bag of cheese, and a hunting knife from the English gentleman

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cups	nummod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	compound
3	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pistols	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pistols	nummod
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pistols	amod
7	pistols	pistol	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cups	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pot	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pot	det
10	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pot	amod
11	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 coffee	punct
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bag	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bag	det
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 cheese	case
18	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bag	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knife	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knife	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 knife	det
22	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knife	compound
23	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 gentleman	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gentleman	det
26	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gentleman	amod
27	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knife	nmod

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

Option 4

three silver cups, two handsome rifles, and a tin cooking-pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cups	nummod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	compound
3	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rifles	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 rifles	nummod
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rifles	amod
7	rifles	rifle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cups	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pot	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pot	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tin	det
11	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pot	nsubj
12	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pot	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 cooking	punct
14	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cups	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pot		a tin						tree rules

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