Exam question 3 · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

What condition is attached to the ruler of the year's freedom according to the text?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: freedom · What happens: attach, accord · To what, where: condition, text

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attached	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 attached	aux:pass
4	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ruler	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ruler	det
7	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attached	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 freedom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 freedom	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 year	case
12	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruler	nmod
13	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 freedom	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 text	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 text	det
16	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 according	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 attached	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attach	present · passive		what condition				to the ruler of the year's freedom	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to ruler=Co-Patient
2	accord	gerund	the year's freedom not said here					to the text goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to text=Goal

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

Snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Winter's death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 death	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Winter	case
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		Winter						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Summer's end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Summer	case
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The arrival of Spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive		Spring						nom arrival «act 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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