Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239…

Identify the substance which Waldemar Daa sought to produce in his locked room.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Waldemar · What happens: identify, seek, produce, lock · To what, where: substance, locked room

This is exam question 3 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sought	obj
5	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sought	nsubj
6	Daa	Daa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Waldemar	flat
7	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 substance	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 produce	mark
9	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sought	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 room	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 room	nmod:poss
12	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 room	amod
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 produce	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the substance		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	seek	past	Waldemar	the substance		tree rules
3	produce not said to happen	to-infinitive	Waldemar not said here		Waldemar's locked room	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lock	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Silver, which he hoped to produce by a hidden craft of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hoped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hoped	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hoped	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hoped	nsubj
5	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 produce	mark
7	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hoped	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 craft	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 craft	det
10	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 craft	amod
11	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 produce	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 craft	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hope	past	Silver			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	produce not said to happen	to-infinitive	Silver not said here		by a hidden craft of the sea	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	craft			the sea		nom craft «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coins	compound
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gold, which he hoped to obtain by the secret arts of nature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hoped	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hoped	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hoped	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hoped	nsubj
5	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 obtain	mark
7	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hoped	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 arts	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arts	det
10	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arts	amod
11	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obtain	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 nature	case
13	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	obtain not said to happen	to-infinitive						by the secret arts of nature	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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