Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

Which of the following expressions denotes the frost that coats the trees in the morning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frost · What happens: follow, denote, coat · To what, where: frost, trees

This is exam question 3 of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 denotes	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 expressions	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 expressions	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 expressions	amod
5	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 denotes	obl
6	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 frost	det
8	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denotes	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 coats	nsubj
10	coats	coat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 frost	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 coats	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coats	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 denotes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	denote	present		the frost		of the following expressions	tree rules
3	coat	present	the frost	the trees	morning		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Destination

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

white dew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dew	amod
2	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the frozen morning mist of the wide country fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mist	det
2	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mist	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mist	compound
4	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fields	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fields	compound
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mist	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mist			the wide country fields					nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

hoar frost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hoar	hoar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 frost	amod
2	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a thick white hoar frost on every branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frost	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frost	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frost	amod
4	hoar	hoar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frost	amod
5	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 branch	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 branch	det
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frost	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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