Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

In the passage, to which species does the bird that chattered in the Egyptian language belong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: do, chatter, belong · To what, where: bird, passage, Egyptian language

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1011 «Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings hatch under the burdock leaves» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 passage	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passage	det
3	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 species	punct
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 species	case
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 species	det
7	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passage	conj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 chattered	nsubj
12	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bird	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 language	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 language	det
15	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 language	amod
16	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chattered	obl
17	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 chattered	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present		the bird	the passage and which species	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality
2	chatter	past	the bird		the Egyptian language	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	belong	infinitive	the bird not said here			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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 long-legged bird with red legs by the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legged	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
4	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 legs	case
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 legs	amod
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bird	nmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 pond	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pond	det
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The stork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The tall bird that walked about the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bird	acl:relcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the tall bird					about the wood	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about wood=Trajectory

Option 4

The heron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heron	det
2	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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