Exam question 2 · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

In what manner does the narrator describe the storm that breaks over the forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: narrator, storm · What happens: describe, break · To what, where: storm, manner, forest

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 describe	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	nsubj
7	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 storm	det
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 breaks	nsubj
11	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 storm	acl:relcl
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 breaks	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · do-support	the narrator	the storm		what manner			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent storm=Theme
2	break	present	the storm			the forest			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over forest=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

As a sudden flash and a rolling crash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 flash	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flash	det
3	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flash	amod
4	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crash	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crash	det
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 crash	amod
8	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flash	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

As a flash of lightning and a loud crash over the whole valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 flash	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flash	det
3	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 lightning	case
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flash	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crash	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crash	det
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crash	amod
9	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flash	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 valley	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 valley	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 valley	amod
13	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crash	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash		lightning						nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

As a slow rain over the quiet fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 rain	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rain	det
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rain	amod
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fields	amod
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rain	nmod

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

Option 4

As a sudden flash and a rolling crash of thunder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 flash	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flash	det
3	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flash	amod
4	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crash	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crash	det
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 crash	amod
8	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flash	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 thunder	case
10	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crash	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crash		thunder						nom crash «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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