Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…

Identify the figure who appeared beside Babette during her dream.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, figure, Babette · What happens: identify, appear, dream · To what, where: figure, Babette

This is exam question 3 of lesson 863 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and Babette near their wedding, then their boat drifts away» 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	3 figure	det
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 appeared	nsubj
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 figure	acl:relcl
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 Babette	case
7	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
8	during	during	ADP	_	10 dream	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dream	nmod:poss
10	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the figure			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
2	appear	past	the figure		Babette	during Babette's dream	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside babette=Location
3	dream		Babette				nom dream «cognition 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

The tall Swiss guide with a long beard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guide	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guide	amod
3	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guide	amod
4	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 beard	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beard	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beard	amod
8	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guide	nmod

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

Option 2

The young Englishman with golden whiskers, who had come up from London to see the mountains

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Englishman	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Englishman	amod
3	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 whiskers	case
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whiskers	amod
6	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Englishman	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 come	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 Englishman	parataxis
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 London	case
13	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountains	det
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past · perfect	the young Englishman with golden whiskers			London			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from london=Initial_Location
2	see	to-infinitive	the young Englishman with golden whiskers not said here	the mountains					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The young Englishman with golden whiskers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Englishman	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Englishman	amod
3	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 whiskers	case
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whiskers	amod
6	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Englishman	nmod

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

Option 4

The tall Frenchman with grey hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Frenchman	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Frenchman	amod
3	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Frenchman	nmod

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

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