Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

By what means does the Flower first leave her place of growth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, leave · To what, where: Flower, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	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	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Flower	det
6	Flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 leave	advmod
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 does	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 place	nmod:poss
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 growth	case
12	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod
13	?	?	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	present	the Flower		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Eventuality
3	leave	infinitive	her place of growth	first property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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

By the cold frost of the early snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 frost	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frost	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frost	amod
4	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snow	amod
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frost	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Being broken off by a child's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 broken	aux:pass
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 broken	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 hand	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break off	gerund · passive	a child's hand						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Being broken off by a child's hand in the early spring garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 broken	aux:pass
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 broken	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 hand	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broken	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garden	det
11	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 garden	amod
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 garden	compound
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break off	gerund · passive	a child's hand			the early spring garden			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

Option 4

By the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 wind	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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