Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…
What reason does the crow give for believing that Kay has forgotten Gerda?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason, crow, Kay · What happens: do, give, believe, forget · To what, where: Gerda · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 reason | det |
| 2 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crow | det |
| 5 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 believing | mark |
| 8 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 give | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 forgotten | mark |
| 10 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forgotten | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 forgotten | aux |
| 12 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 believing | ccomp |
| 13 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forgotten | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | what reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | present | the crow | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | believe | gerund | the crow not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | forget | present · perfect | Kay | Gerda | 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
his coldness to Gerda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coldness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Gerda | case |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 coldness | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the princess's crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crown | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 princess | case |
| 4 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | the princess | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
his attachment to the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 attachment | nmod:poss |
| 2 | attachment | attachment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 attachment | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | his = he | to the princess | nom attachment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the old sled he left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sled | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sled | amod |
| 3 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sled | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | he | the old sled not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sled=Theme |
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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