Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

What is the precise nature of the girl's conduct during the summer season?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: precise nature, girl · What happens: be, conduct

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nature	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nature	amod
5	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 conduct	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 girl	case
10	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nature	nmod
11	during	during	ADP	_	14 season	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 season	det
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 season	compound
14	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the precise nature of the girl's conduct during the summer season						tree rules
2	conduct		the girl				during the summer season		nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent during=obl

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

She selected another companion

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 selected	nsubj
2	selected	select	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 companion	det
4	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 selected	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	past	She	another companion					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme

Option 2

She selected another companion, a boy from the village near the mill

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 selected	nsubj
2	selected	select	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 companion	det
4	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 selected	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 companion	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 selected	obl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 mill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mill	det
13	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 selected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	past	She	another companion and a boy		the village		near the mill	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent companion=Theme from village=Source

Option 3

She kept her first companion

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 companion	nmod:poss
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 companion	amod
5	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	She	her first companion					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme

Option 4

She selected another companion and forgot all about the first one

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 selected	nsubj
2	selected	select	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 companion	det
4	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 selected	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forgot	cc
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 selected	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	6 forgot	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	past	She	another companion					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme
2	forget	past	She not said here					about the first one; all property	tree rules

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