Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

What caused the sudden alarm among the wild geese and the sporting dogs in the rushes?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cause, sport · To what, where: sudden alarm, rushes

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 alarm	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 alarm	amod
5	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obj
6	among	among	ADP	_	9 geese	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 geese	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 geese	amod
9	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caused	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dogs	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dogs	det
12	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 dogs	amod
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 geese	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 rushes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rushes	det
16	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caused	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past		the sudden alarm		the rushes		among the wild geese and the sporting dogs	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition alarm=Patient
2	sport	gerund							tree rules

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 hunters' dogs barking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunters	det
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dogs	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 hunters	case
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 barking	nsubj
5	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund	the hunters's dogs						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the discharge of the sportsmen's guns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 discharge	det
2	discharge	discharge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 guns	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sportsmen	det
5	sportsmen	sportsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 guns	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 sportsmen	case
7	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 discharge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discharge			the sportsmen's guns					nom discharge «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

loud guns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 guns	amod
2	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the gunshots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gunshots	det
2	gunshots	gunshot	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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