Exam question 2 · Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin sol…

Identify the object from which the goblin emerged at the stroke of midnight, as described in the passage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, emerge, describe, stroke · To what, where: object, goblin, stroke, passage, midnight

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1000 «Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin soldiers meet a paper dancer, and one falls from the window» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 goblin	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 goblin	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goblin	det
7	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
8	emerged	emerge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 goblin	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 stroke	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stroke	det
11	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 emerged	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 midnight	case
13	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stroke	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 described	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 described	mark
16	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 passage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 passage	det
19	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 described	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object		from the goblin	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	emerge	participle		the goblin not said here	the stroke of midnight		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stroke=Location
3	describe	participle			the passage		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	stroke			midnight			nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient

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

A toy box.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	compound
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 box	punct

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

Option 2

The wooden drawer, which held a painted toy puzzle.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drawer	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drawer	amod
3	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 held	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 puzzle	det
8	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 puzzle	amod
9	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 puzzle	compound
10	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 held	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the wooden drawer	a painted toy puzzle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Theme
2	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The snuff-box.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snuff	punct
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 box	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The snuff-box, which proved to be a toy puzzle.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snuff	punct
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proved	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 proved	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 proved	nsubj
7	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	12 puzzle	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 puzzle	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 puzzle	det
11	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 puzzle	compound
12	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proved	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 proved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past	the snuff box						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	the snuff box not said here	a toy puzzle					tree rules

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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