Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…
What characteristic governing principle of the household is attributed by the Wind to its inhabitants?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: characteristic, Wind · What happens: govern, attribute · To what, where: principle, characteristic
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 characteristic | det |
| 2 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | governing | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 characteristic | acl |
| 4 | principle | principle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 governing | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 household | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 household | det |
| 7 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 principle | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 attributed | aux:pass |
| 9 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Wind | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wind | det |
| 12 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attributed | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 inhabitants | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 15 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Wind | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 attributed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | govern | gerund | what characteristic not said here | principle of the household | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent principle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attribute | present · passive | the Wind to characteristic's inhabitants | what characteristic | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Pride alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 Pride | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Ostentation, pride, splendor, and display
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ostentation | ostentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pride | punct |
| 3 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ostentation | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 splendor | punct |
| 5 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ostentation | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 display | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 display | cc |
| 8 | display | display | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ostentation | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Thrift, humility, and quiet hard work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thrift | thrift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 humility | punct |
| 3 | humility | humility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thrift | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 work | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 work | cc |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 work | amod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 work | amod |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thrift | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Silence, fear, grief, and sorrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silence | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grief | punct |
| 5 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silence | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrow | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sorrow | cc |
| 8 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silence | conj |
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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