Exam question 4 · Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus t…
Which of the following correctly identifies the object observed by the Prince at the bottom of the barrel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, identify, observe · To what, where: object, bottom
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1730 «Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus tries to drown Little Klaus and drowns the old driver by mistake, then a prince finds a gold ring in a barrel» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 identifies | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 identifies | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 identifies | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 identifies | csubj |
| 5 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 4 following | advmod |
| 6 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 object | det |
| 8 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 identifies | obj |
| 9 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 object | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Prince | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 observed | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 bottom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottom | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 observed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 barrel | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 barrel | det |
| 18 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bottom | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | correctly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | identify | present | the object | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | |||||
| 3 | observe | participle | the object not said here | the bottom of the barrel | by the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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
A plain iron ring with a blue stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 2 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | compound |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A gleaming silver brooch from the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 brooch | det |
| 2 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 brooch | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brooch | compound |
| 4 | brooch | brooch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brooch | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
An unusually beautiful gold ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 2 | unusually | unusually | ADV | _ | 3 beautiful | advmod |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ring | amod |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | compound |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A gold ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ring | compound |
| 3 | ring | ring | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1730-pg640-part54/e4/