Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

Which animals hold the closing conversation of this part?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: animals, part · What happens: hold, close, converse · To what, where: closing conversation

This is exam question 3 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hold	nsubj
3	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 conversation	det
5	closing	close	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 conversation	amod
6	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 part	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 part	det
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conversation	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold	present	which animals	the closing conversation of this part	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme
2	close	gerund			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	converse		this part		nom conversation «communication intransitive»: of=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

the parlor-cat, the kitchen-cat, and the old dog who sleeps by the fire

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
2	parlor	parlor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 parlor	punct
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cat	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cat	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 kitchen	punct
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dog	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dog	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	conj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sleeps	nsubj
16	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dog	acl:relcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	the old dog					by the fire	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

the parlor-cat and the kitchen-cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
2	parlor	parlor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 parlor	punct
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cat	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cat	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 kitchen	punct
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	conj

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

Option 3

the barn-cat and the stable-dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
2	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 barn	punct
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dog	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
7	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 stable	punct
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	conj

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

Option 4

the miller and his cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cat	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miller	conj

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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