Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…

Identify the agent responsible for the destruction of the trunk.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, destroy · To what, where: agent, trunk

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 agent	det
3	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 destruction	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 destruction	det
7	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 responsible	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 trunk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trunk	det
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 destruction	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the agent				responsible property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agent=Theme
2	destroy			the trunk					nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Fireworks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The cook's cigar ash, which had dropped onto the trunk lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ash	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cook	case
4	cigar	cigar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ash	compound
5	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dropped	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 dropped	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dropped	aux
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ash	acl:relcl
10	onto	onto	ADP	_	13 lid	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lid	det
12	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lid	compound
13	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · perfect · passive		the cook's cigar ash		the trunk lid			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme onto lid=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The spark from the fireworks, which ignited the trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spark	det
2	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ignited	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fireworks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fireworks	det
5	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spark	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ignited	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ignited	nsubj
8	ignited	ignite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trunk	det
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ignited	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignite	past	the spark from the fireworks	the trunk					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient

Option 4

A burning cinder from the stove that fell into the parcel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cinder	det
2	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 cinder	amod
3	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 stove	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stove	det
6	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cinder	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 parcel	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parcel	det
11	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	a burning cinder from the stove					into the parcel result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into parcel=Result

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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