Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: Joh…

Which phrase in the passage identifies the sole material possession John carries upon departure?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase, John · What happens: identify, carry · To what, where: sole material possession

This is exam question 2 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 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	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 phrase	nmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 possession	det
8	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 possession	amod
9	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 possession	compound
10	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 carries	nsubj
12	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 possession	acl:relcl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 departure	case
14	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carries	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	present	which phrase in the passage	the sole material possession					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
2	carry	present	John	the sole material possession not said here				upon departure	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=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 · ✓ the right answer

"fifty dollars and a few shillings"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dollars	punct
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shillings	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shillings	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shillings	amod
7	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dollars	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dollars	punct

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

"a few shillings"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shillings	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shillings	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shillings	amod
4	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shillings	punct

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

Option 3

"fifty dollars and a silver watch"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dollars	punct
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 watch	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 watch	det
6	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 watch	amod
7	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dollars	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dollars	punct

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

Option 4

"fifty dollars"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dollars	punct
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dollars	punct

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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