Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 84: the…

Identify the character who is described as the little girl sitting high up in the elder-tree at the golden wedding.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, little girl · What happens: identify, describe, sit · To what, where: character, elder tree

This is exam question 1 of lesson 873 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 84: the golden wedding under the elder-tree, then Ida's withered flowers and the student's tale of the flower ball» 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 character	det
3	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 described	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 described	aux:pass
6	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 character	acl:relcl
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 girl	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 described	obl
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 girl	acl
12	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 up	advmod
13	up	up	ADV	_	11 sitting	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
16	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tree	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 elder	punct
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 wedding	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wedding	det
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wedding	amod
22	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the character			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	describe	present · passive		the character		as the little girl	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as girl=Attribute
3	sit	gerund	the little girl not said here		the elder tree	at the golden wedding	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

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 steward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The girl who tells the old story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 girl	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the girl	the old story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Remembrance, the elder-tree mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
4	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 elder	punct
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	compound
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Remembrance	conj

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

Option 4

The gardener's daughter from the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	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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