Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: Joh…

Which word in the passage denotes the belt in which John secures his money?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: word, John · What happens: denote, secure · To what, where: belt, money

This is exam question 3 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 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denotes	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 word	nmod
6	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 belt	det
8	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denotes	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 secures	obl
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 secures	nsubj
12	secures	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 belt	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 money	nmod:poss
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 secures	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 denotes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	which word in the passage	the belt					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot belt=Topic
2	secure	present	John	John's money		the belt			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition money=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 · ✓ the right answer

"girdle"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 girdle	punct
2	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 girdle	punct

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

Option 2

"leather belt"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 belt	punct
2	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belt	compound
3	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 belt	punct

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

Option 3

"wallet"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wallet	punct
2	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wallet	punct

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

Option 4

"waistband of his trousers"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 waistband	punct
2	waistband	waistband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 trousers	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 trousers	nmod:poss
5	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waistband	nmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 waistband	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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