Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous…

Which character, having been rejected by Babette at the window, leaves the mill and walks home along the mountain path?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Babette, character · What happens: reject, leave, walk · To what, where: character, window, mill, mountain path

This is exam question 1 of lesson 861 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous of the Englishman, Babette sends him away, and Rudy walks home alone over the mountains» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaves	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rejected	punct
4	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 rejected	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 rejected	aux:pass
6	rejected	reject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 character	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Babette	case
8	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rejected	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rejected	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 character	punct
13	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mill	det
15	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaves	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 walks	cc
17	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 leaves	conj
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 walks	advmod
19	along	along	ADP	_	22 path	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 path	det
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 path	compound
22	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walks	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 leaves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reject	gerund · perfect · passive	Babette	which character not said here	the window		vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	leave	present	which character	the mill			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Theme
3	walk	present	which character not said here		the mountain path	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=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

Miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

Rudy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Babette

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Englishman in white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Englishman	det
2	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 white	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Englishman	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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