Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

To which species did the large egg in the nest belong, according to the elderly neighbour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: species, large egg · What happens: do, belong, accord

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1148 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the duckling is bullied, flees to the moor, survives the hunt and reaches a cottage» 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	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	obl
3	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 egg	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 egg	amod
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 belong	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 egg	nmod
11	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 neighbour	punct
13	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 neighbour	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 according	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 neighbour	det
16	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 neighbour	amod
17	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 belong	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	species		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	belong	present	the large egg in the nest	accord the elderly neighbour	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a peacock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 peacock	det
2	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a turkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 turkey	det
2	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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