Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

Identify the item which the stranger demanded in return for applying his unguent to the aged woman's fractured limb.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, stranger, return · What happens: identify, demand, apply, fracture · To what, where: item, return, unguent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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 item	det
3	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 demanded	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demanded	nsubj
7	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 item	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 return	case
9	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demanded	obl
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 applying	mark
11	applying	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 return	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 unguent	nmod:poss
13	unguent	unguent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 applying	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	20 limb	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 limb	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 woman	case
19	fractured	fracture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 limb	amod
20	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 applying	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the item			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme
2	demand speech: request	past	the stranger	the item	return		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Precondition
3	apply	gerund	return not said here	stranger's unguent		to the aged woman's fractured limb	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unguent=Theme
4	fracture	participle					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

three fern stems plus a silver coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stems	nummod
2	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stems	compound
3	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	7 coin	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coin	det
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coin	compound
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stems	conj

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

Option 2

two fern leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 leaves	nummod
2	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	compound
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

a coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coin	det
2	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

three fern stems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stems	nummod
2	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stems	compound
3	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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