Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a…

What physical condition does the earth display at the close of this part, as the wedding approaches?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: physical condition · What happens: do · To what, where: earth display, close

This is exam question 4 of lesson 883 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a frozen swallow while the field-mouse plans her wedding to the mole» 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	4 does	obj
2	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 condition	amod
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 display	det
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 display	compound
7	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 close	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 close	det
10	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 display	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 part	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 part	det
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 approaches	punct
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 approaches	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 approaches	det
17	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 approaches	compound
18	approaches	approach	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 display	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	physical condition	the earth display and the wedding approaches		the close of this part			tree rules

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 right answer

It has been baked hard, as hard as stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 baked	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 baked	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 baked	aux:pass
4	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 baked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hard	punct
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 baked	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 stone	case
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	present · perfect · passive		It				hard property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

It has turned to dusty mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mud	case
5	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mud	amod
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present · perfect	It			dusty mud			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to mud=Trajectory

Option 3

It has been dried out by the summer sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dried	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dried	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dried	aux:pass
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 dried	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sun	compound
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	present · perfect · passive	the summer sun	It					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result

Option 4

It is hard and very cracked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hard	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cracked	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 cracked	advmod
6	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						hard property	tree rules
2	crack	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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