Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…

Which character deceives the sexton concerning the chest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: character, sexton · What happens: deceive, concern · To what, where: sexton, chest

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1729 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little Klaus sells the sexton and then his dead grandmother for money» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deceives	nsubj
3	deceives	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sexton	det
5	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deceives	obj
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sexton	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chest	det
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concerning	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 deceives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deceive	present	which character	the sexton					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sexton=Patient
2	concern	gerund	the sexton not said here	the chest					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus chest=Experiencer

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

Big Klaus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Klaus	amod
2	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The shoemaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoemaker	det
2	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The host

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 host	det
2	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Little Klaus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Klaus	amod
2	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	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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