Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…
Determine which flower the child discovers upon the old woman's headwear, thereby restoring her hope.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: determine, flower, discover, restore, hope · To what, where: hope
This is exam question 4 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 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 flower | nsubj |
| 3 | flower | flower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Determine | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 discovers | nsubj |
| 6 | discovers | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flower | ccomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 headwear | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 headwear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 12 | headwear | headwear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 discovers | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 restoring | punct |
| 14 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 15 restoring | advmod |
| 15 | restoring | restore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 headwear | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hope | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 restoring | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | flower | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | discover | present | the child | upon the old woman's headwear | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | restore | gerund | the child not said here | child's hope | thereby property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hope=Theme | |||
| 5 | hope | child | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
a rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rose | det |
| 2 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a tulip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tulip | det |
| 2 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a red rose on the hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rose | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | amod |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hat | det |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a bud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bud | det |
| 2 | bud | bud | 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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