Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

Which flower, in the account given in this part, is said to be singing a song concerning three deceased maidens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: song, three · What happens: give, say, sing, concern, decease · To what, where: account, part, flower, song, maidens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 981 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda runs from the garden, hears the flowers' tales, and meets a crow» 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 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 account	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 account	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 account	det
6	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flower	appos
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 account	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 part	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 part	det
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 flower	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux:pass
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	16 singing	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 singing	aux
16	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 song	det
18	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 singing	obj
19	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 song	acl
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 deceased	nsubj
21	deceased	decease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 concerning	ccomp
22	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 deceased	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	participle		the account not said here	this part	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present · passive		which flower		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	sing speech: express	to-infinitive · progressive		a song		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	concern	gerund	a song not said here			tree rules
5	decease	past	three	maidens		tree rules

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

the hyacinth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hyacinth	det
2	hyacinth	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the lily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lily	det
2	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def 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 4

the narcissus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 narcissus	det
2	narcissus	narcissus	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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