Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

With reference to the passage, state which creature was destined by the field-mouse to be the husband of Tiny.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: field mouse · What happens: destine, be · To what, where: creature, husband

This is exam question 1 of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destined	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destined	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 creature	det
9	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destined	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 destined	aux:pass
11	destined	destine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	16 mouse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mouse	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 field	punct
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destined	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	20 husband	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 husband	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 husband	det
20	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destined	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Tiny	case
22	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 husband	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 destined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destine	past · passive	the field mouse	which creature				with reference; to the passage and state	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	the field mouse not said here	the husband				of Tiny	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

the mole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toad	det
2	toad	toad	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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