Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…

State the future the yard-dog predicted for the young couple.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, predict · To what, where: future, yard dog

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 future	det
3	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
5	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 yard	punct
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
8	predicted	predict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dog	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 couple	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 couple	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 couple	amod
12	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 predicted	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the future					tree rules
2	predict	participle		the yard dog not said here				for the young couple	vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

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

They would share one kennel and one bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 share	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 share	aux
3	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kennel	nummod
5	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 share	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bone	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bone	nummod
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kennel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	would	They	one kennel and one bone					tree rules

Option 2

They would share one kennel and one bone, and the children would share the scraps from the master's table forever after

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 share	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 share	aux
3	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kennel	nummod
5	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 share	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bone	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bone	nummod
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kennel	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 share	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 share	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 share	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 share	aux
14	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 share	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 scraps	det
16	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 share	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	21 table	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 master	det
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 table	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 master	case
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 share	obl
22	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 share	advmod
23	after	after	ADP	_	3 share	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share after	would	They	one kennel and one bone				forever property	tree rules
2	share	would	the children	the scraps		the master's table			tree rules

Option 3

They would share one kennel and one bone, and sleep together by the stove every night until old age

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 share	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 share	aux
3	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kennel	nummod
5	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 share	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bone	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bone	nummod
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kennel	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sleep	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sleep	cc
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 share	conj
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 sleep	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 stove	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stove	det
15	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleep	obl
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 share	obl:unmarked
18	until	until	ADP	_	20 age	case
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 age	amod
20	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	would	They	one kennel and one bone			until old age; night		tree rules
2	sleep together	infinitive	They not said here					by the stove; together property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They would have a house and a warm fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fire	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fire	det
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	They	a house and a warm fire					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient

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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