Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…
Upon arrival in Lapland, at what dwelling did the reindeer first halt?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: dwell, do · To what, where: reindeer first halt
This is exam question 1 of lesson 984 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda rides the reindeer north to Finland and is left alone in the snow» 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 arrival | case |
| 2 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Lapland | case |
| 4 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arrival | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 8 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dwelling | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 halt | det |
| 11 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 halt | compound |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 halt | amod |
| 13 | halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the reindeer first halt | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halt=Eventuality |
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
a small hut of humble appearance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hut | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hut | amod |
| 3 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 appearance | case |
| 5 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 appearance | amod |
| 6 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hut | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a small hut of humble appearance in the snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hut | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hut | amod |
| 3 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 appearance | case |
| 5 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 appearance | amod |
| 6 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hut | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 snow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 snow | det |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appearance | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a large house of grand design
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | amod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 design | case |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 design | amod |
| 6 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 house | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a tall tower of old stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tower | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tower | amod |
| 3 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stone | case |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tower | nmod |
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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