Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

With reference to the passage, identify the object which the swan-maidens claim was bound beneath the wings of a swallow.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, swan maidens · What happens: identify, claim, bind · To what, where: object

This is exam question 2 of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» 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	7 identify	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	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct
7	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 object	det
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bound	nsubj:pass
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 claim	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 maidens	det
12	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 maidens	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 swan	punct
14	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 claim	nsubj
15	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 object	acl:relcl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bound	aux:pass
17	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 identify	ccomp
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	20 wings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wings	det
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bound	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 swallow	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 swallow	det
23	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wings	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		with reference to the passage	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	claim speech: other	present	the swan maidens	the object		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
3	bind	past · passive		the object	beneath the wings of a swallow	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Straw	straw	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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