Exam question 4 · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

What reaction did the spectators display toward the palaces?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reaction, spectators · What happens: do, display

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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	3 did	obj
2	reaction	reaction	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	5 spectators	det
5	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 display	nsubj
6	display	display	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	toward	toward	ADP	_	9 palaces	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palaces	det
9	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 display	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	reaction						tree rules
2	display	present	the spectators					toward the palaces	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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

They quietly looked away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look away	past	They					away, quietly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

They ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	They					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They booed and threw rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 booed	nsubj
2	booed	boo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 threw	cc
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 booed	conj
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boo	past	They						tree rules
2	throw	past	They not said here	rocks					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They exclaimed admiringly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 exclaimed	nsubj
2	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	admiringly	admiringly	ADV	_	2 exclaimed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	They					admiringly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1019-pg27200-part230/e4/