Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…

By which insect was the protagonist conveyed into the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, convey · To what, where: protagonist, tree

This is exam question 2 of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 insect	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 insect	det
3	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 protagonist	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 protagonist	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 protagonist	det
6	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 protagonist	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conveyed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 protagonist	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the protagonist				by which insect	tree rules
2	convey	participle		the protagonist not said here		the tree			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

The ladybird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The dragonfly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The cockchafer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The cockchafer beetle from the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beetle	det
2	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beetle	compound
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beetle	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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