Exam question 5 · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…

What does "conjure" mean?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: conjure, mean

This is exam question 5 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 conjure	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 conjure	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 conjure	punct
4	conjure	conjure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 conjure	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 conjure	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 conjure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conjure in a quote	present · do-support							tree rules
2	mean	infinitive							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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

To write a long letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 write	mark
2	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 letter	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 letter	amod
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	to-infinitive		a long letter					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To work magic by spells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 work	mark
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 work	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 spells	case
5	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	to-infinitive		magic				by spells	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent magic=Material

Option 3

To keep a secret from the king and queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 queen	cc
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		a secret				from the king and queen	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer secret=Beneficiary from king=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To build a small house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 build	mark
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive		a small house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=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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