Exam question 1 · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…
Which object was discovered fastened within the body of the Snow Man upon his dissolution?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Man · What happens: discover, fasten, dissolve · To what, where: object
This is exam question 1 of lesson 978 «Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts, the mirror shatters, Kay and Gerda meet» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 discovered | aux:pass |
| 4 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 discovered | xcomp |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Man | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Man | det |
| 11 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Man | compound |
| 12 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 dissolution | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dissolution | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dissolution | dissolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Man | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 discovered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | which object | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | within the body of the Snow Man upon Man's dissolution | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | dissolve | Man | nom dissolution «process transitive»: 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
a shovel tied onto the post
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shovel | det |
| 2 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shovel | acl |
| 4 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 6 post | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 post | det |
| 6 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | participle | a shovel not said here | onto the post | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient onto post=Co-Patient |
Option 2
a stove key
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 key | det |
| 2 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 key | compound |
| 3 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a stove scraper affixed to the pole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 scraper | det |
| 2 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scraper | compound |
| 3 | scraper | scraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | affixed | affix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 scraper | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pole | det |
| 7 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 affixed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affix | participle | a stove scraper not said here | to the pole | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to pole=Co-Patient |
Option 4
a scraper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 scraper | det |
| 2 | scraper | scraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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