Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and H…

What did the Wind indicate regarding the new mill's construction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wind, new mill · What happens: do, indicate, regard, construct

This is exam question 4 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wind	det
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 indicate	nsubj
5	indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 construction	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mill	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mill	amod
9	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 construction	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mill	case
11	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 indicate	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	indicate	present	the Wind	regard the new mill's construction	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
3	regard	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	construct		the new mill		nom construction «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

It was made of better wood and iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 wood	amod
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 iron	cc
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		It				of better wood and iron	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was arranged more suitably for the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arranged	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arranged	aux:pass
3	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 suitably	advmod
5	suitably	suitably	ADV	_	3 arranged	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arranged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	past · passive		It			time	suitably property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

It was built in a newer and fashionable manner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 built	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	aux:pass
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 manner	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 manner	det
6	newer	new	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 manner	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fashionable	cc
8	fashionable	fashionable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 newer	conj
9	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		It		a newer manner			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

It was cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					cheap property	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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