Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and H…

To which family does the Wind's narrative principally refer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrative · What happens: do, refer · To what, where: narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1030 «Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters: the stork's nest, Anna Dorothea's end, the mill that burned» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 family	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 family	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wind	det
6	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 narrative	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Wind	case
8	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
9	principally	principally	ADV	_	10 refer	advmod
10	refer	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 narrative	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the Wind's narrative				to which family	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrative=Eventuality
2	refer	infinitive	the Wind's narrative not said here					principally property	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme

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 family of the miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 miller	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 miller	det
5	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The family of Waldemar Daa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Waldemar	case
4	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	Daa	Daa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Waldemar	flat

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

Option 3

The family from the red house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 house	amod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The whole family of the old Danish landowner Daa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 family	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 family	amod
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 landowner	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 landowner	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 landowner	amod
7	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 landowner	amod
8	landowner	landowner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 family	nmod
9	Daa	Daa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 landowner	appos

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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