Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

From which tree does the elder-tree mother's spirit derive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, derive · To what, where: spirit, tree

This is exam question 3 of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 tree	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
6	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 elder	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	compound
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spirit	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mother	case
11	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
12	derive	derive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 does	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the tree mother's spirit		which tree			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Eventuality
2	derive	infinitive							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 beech

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beech	det
2	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the elder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elder	det
2	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ash	det
2	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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