Exam question 2 · Andersen tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the Snow Man melts…

Which condition enabled the fragments of the glass to lodge in the eyes of persons?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: enable, lodge · To what, where: fragments, eyes

This is exam question 2 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 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enabled	nsubj
3	enabled	enable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fragments	det
5	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 enabled	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 glass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glass	det
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fragments	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lodge	mark
10	lodge	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 enabled	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eyes	det
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lodge	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 persons	case
15	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eyes	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 enabled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enable	past	which condition	the fragments of the glass					tree rules
2	lodge	to-infinitive	which condition not said here			the eyes of persons			vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location

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 eye was touched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eye	det
2	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touched	aux:pass
4	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past · passive		the eye					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

contact with the eye as they flew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 eye	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eye	det
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 contact	nmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 flew	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	contact with the eye						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the fragments struck while they drifted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fragments	det
2	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 struck	nsubj
3	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 drifted	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drifted	nsubj
6	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the fragments						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drift	past	fragments = fragment						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the wind blew them into the face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blew	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 face	det
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind	them = they		the face			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into face=Product

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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