Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

With what sentiment does the young man receive the correspondence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young man · What happens: receive · To what, where: correspondence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 receive	obl
3	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 receive	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 receive	nsubj
8	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 correspondence	det
10	correspondence	correspondence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 receive	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 receive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	present · do-support	the young man	the correspondence					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent correspondence=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

With open delight and joy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 delight	case
2	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 delight	amod
3	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 joy	cc
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delight	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

With evident displeasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 displeasure	case
2	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 displeasure	amod
3	displeasure	displeasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Happily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happily	happily	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Gladly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gladly	gladly	ADV	_	root	root

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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