Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239…

State which daughter of Waldemar Daa pleaded on behalf of the nesting birds.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: plead, nest · To what, where: State, behalf

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1028 «Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleaded	obl:unmarked
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleaded	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Waldemar	case
5	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 daughter	nmod
6	Daa	Daa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Waldemar	flat
7	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 behalf	case
9	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleaded	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 birds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
12	nesting	nest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 birds	amod
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 behalf	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pleaded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past	which daughter of Waldemar	State		behalf of the nesting birds			tree rules
2	nest	gerund							vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Anna Dorothea, the youngest of the three daughters, pleaded with her father for mercy

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 youngest	nsubj
2	Dorothea	Dorothea	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Anna	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 youngest	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youngest	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 daughters	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 daughters	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 daughters	nummod
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 youngest	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pleaded	punct
11	pleaded	plead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 daughters	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pleaded	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 mercy	case
16	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	participle		the three daughters not said here				with Anna's father for mercy	tree rules

Option 2

Anna Dorothea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Dorothea	Dorothea	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Anna	flat

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The youngest daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 daughter	amod
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Joanna, the eldest, who pleaded with the old lord for the storks and the trees in the wood

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eldest	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eldest	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eldest	det
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pleaded	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 pleaded	nsubj
7	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eldest	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 lord	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lord	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lord	amod
11	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleaded	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 storks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 storks	det
14	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lord	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trees	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 storks	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleaded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past				the wood		with the old lord for the storks and the trees	tree rules

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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