Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

Which egg did the mother duck remain seated upon at the beginning of the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: egg, mother duck · What happens: do, remain, seat, begin · To what, where: mother duck, passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1012 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the ugly duckling hatches, is scorned, and flees to a moor» 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 egg	det
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duck	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 duck	compound
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 duck	acl:relcl
8	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 duck	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 beginning	case
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 beginning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beginning	det
12	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seated	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 passage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 passage	det
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beginning	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	which egg	the mother duck		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Eventuality
2	remain	present	the mother duck not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seat	participle		the mother duck not said here	upon the beginning of the passage	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
4	begin			the passage		nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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

one egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 egg	nummod
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the spotted egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 egg	det
2	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 egg	amod
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	participle							vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the largest egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 egg	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 egg	amod
3	egg	egg	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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