Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: Joh…

Which expression in the passage conveys the father's approval of his son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: expression, father · What happens: convey, approve · To what, where: approval, son

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1006 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: John buries his father and sets out into the world» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 expression	det
2	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conveys	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expression	nmod
6	conveys	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 father	det
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 approval	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	approval	approval	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conveys	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 son	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 approval	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 conveys	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	present	which expression in the passage	the father's approval of expression's son					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent approval=Topic
2	approve		the father	expression's son					nom approval «act transitive»: poss=agent 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

"Father loved you, my good boy"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 loved	punct
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 loved	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boy	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 boy	nmod:poss
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	parataxis
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love in a quote	past	Father	you					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2

"Good son"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct

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

Option 3

"Be good, John"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 John	punct
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 good	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	imperative	you not said here					John obl; good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"You have been a good son, John"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 son	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 son	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 son	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 son	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 John	punct
9	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present · perfect	You	a good son					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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