Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…

At what point was Gerda abandoned by the reindeer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, abandon · To what, where: point Gerda

This is exam question 4 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Gerda	compound
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Gerda	cop
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
6	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 what	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 reindeer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reindeer	det
9	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 abandoned	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		point Gerda					tree rules
2	abandon	participle						by the reindeer	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme

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

beside a bush bearing red berries and thorns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	3 bush	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bush	det
3	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bush	acl
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 berries	amod
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bearing	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thorns	cc
8	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 berries	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	gerund	a bush not said here	red berries and thorns					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient

Option 2

beside a huge old bush bearing bright red berries in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 bush	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bush	det
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bush	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bush	amod
5	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bush	acl
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 berries	amod
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 berries	amod
9	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bearing	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 snow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bearing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	gerund	a huge old bush not said here	bright red berries		the snow			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient

Option 3

beside a tall pine in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	4 pine	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pine	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pine	amod
4	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pine	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

beside a bush bearing red berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	3 bush	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bush	det
3	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bush	acl
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 berries	amod
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	gerund	a bush not said here	red berries					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=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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