Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…

By what means did the Finland woman dispose of the message inscribed upon the dried fish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, inscribe, dry · To what, where: Finland woman dispose, message · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dispose	det
6	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dispose	compound
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dispose	compound
8	dispose	dispose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 message	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 message	det
11	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dispose	nmod
12	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 message	acl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 fish	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fish	det
15	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fish	amod
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inscribed	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the Finland woman dispose of the message		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispose=Eventuality
3	inscribe	participle	the message not said here	upon the dried fish	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dry	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

she tossed it in the cooking pan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	nsubj
2	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 pan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pan	det
6	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pan	compound
7	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	she	it		the cooking pan			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pan=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she placed it in the soup saucepan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 saucepan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 saucepan	det
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saucepan	compound
7	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	she	it		the soup saucepan			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in saucepan=Destination

Option 3

she dropped it in the stew pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 pot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pot	det
6	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pot	compound
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	she	it		the stew pot			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pot=Destination

Option 4

she boiled it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 boiled	nsubj
2	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 boiled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	past	she	it					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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