Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends lea…
What name was given by men to the false maiden produced by the evil spirit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: men · What happens: give, produce · To what, where: false maiden
This is exam question 2 of lesson 941 «Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends leaves home and the word BELIEVE glows» 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 | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 maiden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 9 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maiden | amod |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 11 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 maiden | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 spirit | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spirit | det |
| 14 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spirit | compound |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 produced | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | men | the false maiden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to maiden=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | produce | participle | the false maiden not said here | by the evil spirit | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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
the angel of perfection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 angel | det |
| 2 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 perfection | case |
| 4 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 angel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the spirit of fullness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fullness | case |
| 4 | fullness | fullness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spirit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the angel of completeness, given by men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 angel | det |
| 2 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 completeness | case |
| 4 | completeness | completeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 angel | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 angel | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | the angel of completeness not said here | by men | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the angel of completeness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 angel | det |
| 2 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 completeness | case |
| 4 | completeness | completeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 angel | 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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