Exam question 4 · Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin sol…

State the material from which the five-and-twenty tin soldiers were originally fashioned, according to the narrator.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: five · What happens: be, accord · To what, where: material

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	appos
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 fashioned	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fashioned	det
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 fashioned	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 fashioned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fashioned	cc
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 soldiers	nummod
12	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soldiers	compound
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fashioned	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fashioned	cop
15	originally	originally	ADV	_	16 fashioned	advmod
16	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 material	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 narrator	punct
18	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 narrator	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 according	fixed
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 narrator	det
21	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fashioned	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	five			the material		fashioned, originally property	tree rules
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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

Melted lead from a cannon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lead	amod
2	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 cannon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cannon	det
5	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lead	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The same old tin spoon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spoon	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spoon	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spoon	amod
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoon	compound
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoon	punct

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

Option 3

A tin spoon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Painted wood from a drum.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painted	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 drum	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drum	det
5	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painted	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Painted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle		wood		a drum			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent wood=Result from drum=Material

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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