Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

Which of the following phrases describes the season during which the events of this passage take place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: events · What happens: follow, describe, take · To what, where: place

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 describes	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 phrases	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 phrases	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 phrases	amod
5	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 describes	obl
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 season	det
8	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describes	obj
9	during	during	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 take	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 events	det
12	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 take	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 passage	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 passage	det
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 events	nmod
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 season	acl:relcl
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present			season	of the following phrases	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	take	infinitive	the events of this passage	place	during the season		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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

Lovely summer weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weather	amod
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weather	compound
3	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Cold winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 winter	amod
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Warm autumn sunshine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sunshine	amod
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sunshine	compound
3	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Wet spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spring	amod
2	spring	spring	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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