Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and H…

What did the Wind assert regarding the stork's nest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wind · What happens: assert, regard

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 assert	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 assert	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wind	det
4	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assert	nsubj
5	assert	assert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 nest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stork	det
8	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nest	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 stork	case
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assert	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 assert	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assert	past · do-support	the Wind					regard the stork's nest	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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

That it was kept in order by the stork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 kept	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 stork	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stork	det
9	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · passive	the stork	That		order			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in order=Location

Option 2

That it had been abandoned long before the family came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 abandoned	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 abandoned	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 abandoned	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 abandoned	aux:pass
5	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 abandoned	advmod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 abandoned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abandon	past · perfect · passive		That				long property	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source
2	come	past	the family						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That the stork had built it on the roof of the mill himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 stork	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stork	det
3	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mill	det
12	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roof	nmod
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 mill	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect · passive		that stork		the roof of the mill stork			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product

Option 4

That it was built by the stork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 built	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 built	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	aux:pass
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 stork	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stork	det
7	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive	the stork	That					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

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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