Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…

Which character is identified in the passage as the narrator of the account concerning the mansion of Borreby?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: identify, concern · To what, where: character, passage, mansion

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1027 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind tells of the Borreby house and its wild May feast» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identified	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 identified	aux:pass
4	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 passage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 passage	det
7	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identified	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 narrator	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrator	det
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passage	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 account	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 account	det
13	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 narrator	nmod
14	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 narrator	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mansion	det
16	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 concerning	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Borreby	case
18	Borreby	Borreby	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 mansion	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 identified	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	present · passive		which character		the passage as the narrator of the account			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	concern	gerund	the narrator of the account not said here	the mansion of Borreby					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mansion=Experiencer

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 wandering traveler from the far north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 traveler	det
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 traveler	amod
3	traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 north	amod
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 traveler	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sea	det
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wind	det
2	Wind	wind	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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