Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose…

From which region does the minstrel of the dream originate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: minstrel · What happens: do, originate · To what, where: minstrel, region

This is exam question 4 of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 region	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 minstrel	det
6	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dream	det
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 originate	obl
10	originate	originate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 minstrel	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the minstrel		which region			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minstrel=Eventuality
2	originate	infinitive	the minstrel not said here					of the dream	vn establish-55.5-1 «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 right answer

The north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 north	det
2	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The far north, the home of the clouds and frost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 north	det
2	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 north	amod
3	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 home	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 home	det
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 north	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 clouds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clouds	det
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 home	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frost	cc
11	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clouds	conj

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

Option 3

The south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 south	det
2	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A cold land where the northern lights glow over the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 land	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 land	amod
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 glow	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lights	det
6	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lights	amod
7	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 glow	nsubj
8	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 land	acl:relcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 snow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snow	det
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	the northern lights			the snow			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snow=Location

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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