Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

In what manner did the reader interpret the presence of the flower within the volume?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reader · What happens: interpret · To what, where: presence, manner

This is exam question 1 of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interpret	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 interpret	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reader	det
6	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interpret	nsubj
7	interpret	interpret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 presence	det
9	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interpret	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 flower	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flower	det
12	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 presence	nmod
13	within	within	ADP	_	15 volume	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 volume	det
15	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interpret	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 interpret	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interpret	past · do-support	the reader	the presence of the flower		what manner		within the volume	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent presence=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

As a forgotten bit of litter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 bit	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
3	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bit	amod
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 litter	case
6	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	participle							tree rules

Option 2

As an accidental pressed leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 accidental	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 accidental	det
3	accidental	accidental	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 accidental	acl
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pressed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	participle	a accidental not said here	leaf					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

As an intended token bearing meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	6 meaning	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meaning	det
3	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bearing	amod
4	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bearing	compound
5	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meaning	compound
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	intend	participle							vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

As a bookmark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 bookmark	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bookmark	det
3	bookmark	bookmark	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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