Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…

Which vision did the Viking's wife experience during the night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vision, Viking · What happens: do, experience · To what, where: wife experience

This is exam question 3 of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 vision	det
2	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Viking	det
5	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 experience	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Viking	case
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 experience	compound
8	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	during	during	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which vision	the Viking's wife experience			night		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Eventuality
2	experience		the Viking						nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=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

a dream of a lake and the fall of the old kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 lake	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dream	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fall	det
8	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lake	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 kings	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kings	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kings	amod
12	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream			a lake and the fall of the old kings					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

a dream of a storm and the last battle of the gods and men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 storm	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 storm	det
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dream	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 battle	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 battle	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 battle	amod
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 storm	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 gods	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gods	det
12	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 battle	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 men	cc
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gods	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream			a storm and the last battle of the gods and men					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient
2	battle			the gods and men					nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

a dream of a sea and a golden ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dream	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ship	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ship	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ship	amod
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dream	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream			a sea					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a dream of a storm and the last battle of the gods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 storm	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 storm	det
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dream	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 battle	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 battle	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 battle	amod
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 storm	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 gods	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gods	det
12	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 battle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream			a storm and the last battle of the gods					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient
2	battle			the gods					nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient

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