Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Hel…
Which of the following describes the setting in which the Viking's household is situated, as stated in this part?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, describe, situate, state · To what, where: setting, household, part
This is exam question 2 of lesson 891 «Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Helga grows wild, and the Vikings bring home a Christian priest.» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 describes | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 describes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 describes | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 describes | nsubj |
| 5 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 setting | det |
| 7 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describes | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 situated | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Viking | det |
| 11 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 household | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Viking | case |
| 13 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 situated | aux:pass |
| 15 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 setting | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stated | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 stated | mark |
| 18 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 situated | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 part | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 part | det |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stated | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 describes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | describe | present | the setting | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent setting=Theme | |||||
| 3 | situate | present · passive | the Viking's household | the setting | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | state speech: other | participle | this part | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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
On the wild moor beside the dark fjord
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 moor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moor | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moor | amod |
| 4 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 fjord | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fjord | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fjord | amod |
| 8 | fjord | fjord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moor | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
On the moor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 moor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moor | det |
| 3 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
On the wild moor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 moor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moor | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moor | amod |
| 4 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In the frozen hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hills | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hills | det |
| 3 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hills | amod |
| 4 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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