Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

What did the stork resolve to bring to the Viking's wife?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stork · What happens: resolve, bring · To what, where: wife

This is exam question 2 of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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	5 resolve	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 resolve	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stork	det
4	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resolve	nsubj
5	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bring	mark
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 resolve	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 wife	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Viking	det
10	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wife	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Viking	case
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 resolve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past · do-support	the stork						tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive	the stork not said here		the Viking's wife				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to wife=Destination

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

food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a baby girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girl	compound
3	girl	girl	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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