Exam question 1 · Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna si…

Which city does Knud reach as a workman, and by whom is he engaged?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: city · What happens: reach, engage · To what, where: Knud

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1017 «Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna sing at the opera, then sets out north over the mountains» 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 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
4	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reach	nsubj
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 workman	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 workman	det
8	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 engaged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 engaged	cc
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 whom	case
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 engaged	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 engaged	aux:pass
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 engaged	nsubj
15	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 reach	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present · do-support	which city					as a workman	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	engage	present · passive		Knud					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Milan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Milan, by a German master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Milan	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 master	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 master	det
5	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 master	amod
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Milan	nmod

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

Option 4

Vienna, by a French count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vienna	Vienna	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Vienna	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 count	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 count	det
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 count	amod
6	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vienna	nmod

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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