Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…

In what condition was the protagonist at the conclusion of the passage?

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

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	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	at	at	ADP	_	9 conclusion	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 conclusion	det
9	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 protagonist	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 passage	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 passage	det
12	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conclusion	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 protagonist	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the protagonist		what condition		at the conclusion of the passage	tree rules
2	conclude			the passage					nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Frozen, shivering, and very hungry in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shivering	punct
3	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Frozen	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hungry	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hungry	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hungry	advmod
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Frozen	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 snow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snow	det
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hungry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver	gerund							vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Frozen and shivering beside the frozen stubble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 shivering	cc
3	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Frozen	conj
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 stubble	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stubble	det
6	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stubble	amod
7	stubble	stubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shivering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver	gerund				the frozen stubble			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Frozen and shivering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 shivering	cc
3	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Frozen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver	gerund							vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Hungry and asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 asleep	cc
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hungry	conj

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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