Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

In what season does Gerda find herself when she comes to rest upon the great stone?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gerda · What happens: find, come, rest · To what, where: Gerda, great stone

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 season	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 season	det
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 find	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 comes	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 find	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 rest	mark
12	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 comes	xcomp
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 stone	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stone	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stone	amod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rest	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	find	present · do-support	Gerda	Gerda		season	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
2	come	present	Gerda				tree rules
3	rest	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here		the great stone		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stone=Location

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

winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	imperative	you not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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