Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burn…

With reference to the passage, in which room was the fir-tree kept during the winter months?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: room · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: fir tree, passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1630 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burned, and a new tale begins» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tree	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tree	obl
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tree	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 fir	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tree	acl
16	during	during	ADP	_	19 months	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 months	det
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 months	compound
19	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kept	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	room	the fir tree		the passage and the fir tree			tree rules
2	keep	participle		the fir tree not said here			month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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

In the kitchen loft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 loft	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 loft	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loft	compound
4	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

In the lumber-room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 room	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
3	lumber	lumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 room	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 lumber	punct
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

In the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cellar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cellar	det
3	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

In the storeroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 storeroom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storeroom	det
3	storeroom	storeroom	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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