Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burn…

With reference to the passage, what was Basmus's occupation before his remarkable absence?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: passage, Basmus · What happens: be, absent · To what, where: occupation

This is exam question 4 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	5 passage	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 occupation	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 occupation	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 occupation	cop
9	Basmus	Basmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 occupation	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Basmus	case
11	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
12	before	before	ADP	_	15 absence	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 absence	nmod:poss
14	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 absence	amod
15	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 occupation	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 passage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the passage and Basmus's occupation	Basmus's occupation			before Basmus's remarkable absence		tree rules
2	absent		Basmus						nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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

He was a miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 miller	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 miller	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a miller					tree rules

Option 2

A sailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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

He was a smith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smith	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smith	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 smith	det
4	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a smith					tree rules

Option 4

A fisher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fisher	det
2	fisher	fisher	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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