Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serv…

What was the emotional condition of the protagonist immediately before her death?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emotional condition, her · What happens: be, condition, die · To what, where: protagonist

This is exam question 2 of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
4	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 condition	amod
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 protagonist	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 protagonist	det
8	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 condition	nmod
9	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 death	advmod
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 death	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 death	nmod:poss
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 condition	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the emotional condition of the protagonist before her death			tree rules
2	condition			the protagonist	before her death	nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient before=obl
3	die		her = she			nom death «event intransitive»: 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

Great fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fear	amod
2	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Deep sorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sorrow	amod
2	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Utter despair and loss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 despair	amod
2	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 loss	cc
4	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 despair	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Profound peace and joy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 peace	amod
2	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 joy	cc
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peace	conj

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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