Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…

What object did the old toad remove from the leaf before she departed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, depart · To what, where: old toad remove, leaf

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 remove	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 remove	amod
6	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remove	compound
7	remove	remove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 leaf	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leaf	det
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remove	nmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 departed	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 departed	nsubj
13	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	the old toad remove		the leaf			tree rules
2	depart	past	object						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 elegant little bed woven from silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bed	det
2	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bed	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 silk	case
7	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woven	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	participle		the elegant little bed not said here		silk			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from silk=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The elegant little bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bed	det
2	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The elegant little bed the toad coveted most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bed	det
2	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coveted	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toad	det
6	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coveted	nsubj
7	coveted	covet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 coveted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	covet	past	the elegant little bed	most					vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot most=Theme

Option 4

The pretty walnut bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bed	det
2	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
3	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bed	compound
4	bed	bed	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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