Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

From what source did the companion derive his knowledge of the forthcoming riddle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: companion · What happens: derive · To what, where: knowledge

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 derive	obl
3	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 derive	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 companion	det
6	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 derive	nsubj
7	derive	derive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knowledge	nmod:poss
9	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 derive	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 riddle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 riddle	det
12	forthcoming	forthcoming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 riddle	amod
13	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knowledge	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 derive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	derive	past · do-support	the companion	companion's knowledge of the forthcoming riddle					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent knowledge=Result from what=Material

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

From the wise magician who lived high in the mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 magician	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magician	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magician	amod
4	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 magician	acl:relcl
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mountain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mountain	det
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the wise magician			the mountain		high property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location

Option 2

From a bird at the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 bird	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

From the magician in the mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 magician	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mountain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 magician	nmod

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

Option 4

From an old servant at court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 servant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 servant	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servant	amod
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 court	case
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 servant	nmod

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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