Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…

Identify the object which the old woman employs to support herself when she approaches the child.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old woman, woman · What happens: identify, employ, support, approach · To what, where: object, woman, child

This is exam question 2 of lesson 980 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts in a boat to an old woman's garden, where the roses vanish and she forgets Kay» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 employs	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 employs	nsubj
8	employs	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 object	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 support	mark
10	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 employs	xcomp
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 support	obj
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 approaches	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 approaches	nsubj
14	approaches	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 support	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 approaches	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	employ	present	the old woman	the object	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Attribute
3	support	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	woman	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus
4	approach	present	woman	the child	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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 wooden cane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cane	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cane	amod
3	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a heavy broom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 broom	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 broom	amod
3	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a crutch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crutch	det
2	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 club	det
2	club	club	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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