Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…

According to the stork-papa, what is the condition of the Egyptian host's daughter at the close of the passage?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: stork papa · What happens: accord, be · To what, where: condition, close

This is exam question 4 of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 papa	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 papa	det
4	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 papa	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 stork	punct
6	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 condition	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 condition	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 condition	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 condition	det
11	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 papa	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 daughter	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 host	det
14	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 host	amod
15	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 daughter	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 host	case
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 condition	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 close	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 close	det
20	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 condition	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 passage	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 passage	det
23	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 close	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 papa	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the stork papa	the condition		the close of the passage		of the Egyptian host's daughter	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

Hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

She is ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					ill property	tree rules

Option 3

Asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She is lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		She					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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/887-pg27200-part98/e4/