Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy clim…

Identify the principal character who is portrayed as having lost a personal token of betrothal during the ascent of the mountain.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, portray, lose · To what, where: principal character, personal token

This is exam question 1 of lesson 862 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy climbs the mountain, meets the Ice Maiden, and loses his ring» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 character	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 character	amod
4	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 portrayed	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 portrayed	aux:pass
7	portrayed	portray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 character	acl:relcl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 lost	mark
9	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lost	aux
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 portrayed	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 token	det
12	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 token	amod
13	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 betrothal	case
15	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 token	nmod
16	during	during	ADP	_	18 ascent	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ascent	det
18	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mountain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mountain	det
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ascent	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal character		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	portray	present · passive		the principal character		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	lose	gerund · perfect		a personal token of betrothal	during the ascent of the mountain	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent token=Eventuality

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

Rudy, the hunter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hunter	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunter	det
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rudy	appos

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

Option 2

Babette, the miller's girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girl	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 miller	case
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Babette	appos

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

Option 3

The Ice Maiden, who kissed him on the high pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Maiden	det
2	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Maiden	compound
3	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kissed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kissed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kissed	nsubj
6	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kissed	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 pass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pass	det
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pass	amod
11	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kissed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	the Ice Maiden	him = he		the high pass			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rudy, the young hunter, who has lost the ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hunter	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunter	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hunter	amod
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rudy	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lost	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lost	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 hunter	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ring	det
11	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect	the young hunter	the ring					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality

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