Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144:…

To which of the four Winds did the North Wind express his greatest affection?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: four Winds, North Wind · What happens: do, express · To what, where: greatest affection

This is exam question 1 of lesson 933 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144: the lost prince shelters in the Winds' cave and hears the North and West Winds tell their adventures» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 did	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Winds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Winds	det
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Winds	nummod
6	Winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Wind	det
9	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Wind	compound
10	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 express	nsubj
11	express	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 did	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 affection	nmod:poss
13	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 affection	amod
14	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 express	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the four Winds						tree rules
2	express	past	the North Wind	his greatest affection					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Theme

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

To the South Wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 Wind	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wind	det
3	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Wind	compound
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To Zephyr, the brother from the West

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Zephyr	case
2	Zephyr	Zephyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Zephyr	appos
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 West	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 West	det
8	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod

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

Option 3

To Zephyr, the brother from the West, who was always the gentlest one of them all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Zephyr	case
2	Zephyr	Zephyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Zephyr	appos
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 West	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 West	det
8	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 one	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 one	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 one	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	gentlest	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brother	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 one	nmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the brother from the West and the gentlest one	the gentlest one				of brother; always property	tree rules

Option 4

To Eurus, the brother from the East

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Eurus	case
2	Eurus	Eurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Eurus	appos
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 East	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 East	det
8	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod

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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