Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

Which season immediately succeeded the duckling's departure from the cottage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: season, duckling · What happens: succeed, depart · To what, where: departure, cottage

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1013 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the duckling survives the hunters, a cottage, and a freezing winter» 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 season	det
2	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 succeeded	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 succeeded	advmod
4	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duckling	det
6	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 departure	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 duckling	case
8	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 succeeded	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 cottage	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cottage	det
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 succeeded	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 succeeded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	succeed	past	which season	the duckling's departure		the cottage		immediately property	tree rules
2	depart		the duckling						nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

A cold and frosty early winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 winter	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 winter	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 frosty	cc
4	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cold	conj
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 winter	amod
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The late summer months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 months	det
2	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 months	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 months	compound
4	months	month	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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