Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

What qualities does the princess require in a prospective husband, according to the crow's account?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: qualities, crow · What happens: do, require, accord, account · To what, where: account

This is exam question 4 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 qualities	det
2	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 require	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 qualities	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 qualities	conj
6	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 husband	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 husband	det
9	prospective	prospective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 husband	amod
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 require	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 according	punct
12	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 require	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 account	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crow	det
15	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 account	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 crow	case
17	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 according	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 require	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	what qualities and the princess not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	require	present	what qualities and the princess	in a prospective husband	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	accord	gerund	what qualities and the princess not said here	to the crow's account goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to account=Goal
4	account		the crow		nom account «communication transitive»: 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

to be able to speak with anyone who visits the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 able	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 able	cop
3	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 able	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 speak	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 visits	nsubj
9	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 anyone	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 visits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive		able property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive		with anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with anyone=Co-Agent
3	visit	present	the palace		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Co-Agent

Option 2

the power to know every language spoken in the kingdom and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 know	mark
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 power	acl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 language	det
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 language	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 kingdom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kingdom	det
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoken	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 more	cc
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 language	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	to-infinitive		every language					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	participle		every language not said here		the kingdom			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

wealth and a splendid castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 castle	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 castle	det
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 castle	amod
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wealth	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the ability to converse readily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ability	det
2	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 converse	mark
4	converse	converse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ability	acl
5	readily	readily	ADV	_	4 converse	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	converse speech: other	to-infinitive						readily property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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