Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…
Specify the name conferred upon Tiny by the spirit of the flowers in the closing section.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: specify, confer · To what, where: name
This is exam question 4 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | conferred | confer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 name | acl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 Tiny | case |
| 6 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 conferred | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 spirit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spirit | det |
| 9 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conferred | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 flowers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flowers | det |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spirit | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 section | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 section | det |
| 15 | closing | closing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 section | compound |
| 16 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flowers | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the name | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 2 | confer | participle | the name not said here | upon Tiny; by the spirit of the flowers in the closing section | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: 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
Ma
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Princess Morning Dew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Morning | Morning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dew | compound |
| 3 | Dew | Dew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Princess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Maia the Blossom Bride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maia | Maia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bride | det |
| 3 | Blossom | Blossom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bride | compound |
| 4 | Bride | Bride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Maia | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Maia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maia | Maia | PROPN | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/884-pg27200-part95/e4/