Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…
Which bird did the old duck suppose the unhatched egg to belong to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird · What happens: suppose, belong · To what, where: unhatched egg
This is exam question 2 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 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 suppose | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 duck | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 duck | amod |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suppose | nsubj |
| 7 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 egg | det |
| 9 | unhatched | unhatched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 egg | amod |
| 10 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suppose | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 belong | mark |
| 12 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 egg | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 belong | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 suppose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past · do-support | which bird | the unhatched egg | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent egg=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | belong | to-infinitive | which bird not said here | the unhatched egg 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a turkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 turkey | det |
| 2 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a turkey bird from the big farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | compound |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 farm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 farm | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 farm | amod |
| 7 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
some sort of huge turkey from far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 sort | det |
| 2 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 turkey | case |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 turkey | amod |
| 5 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sort | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 far | case |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 sort | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | huge turkey | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
a peacock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 peacock | det |
| 2 | peacock | peacock | 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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