Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

In which country does the narrator state that the Emperor and all his courtiers are Chinamen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: courtiers · What happens: do, be · To what, where: narrator state, country, Chinamen

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 country	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 state	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	compound
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 Emperor	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Emperor	det
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 state	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Chinamen	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 courtiers	det:predet
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 courtiers	nmod:poss
14	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Chinamen	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Chinamen	cop
16	Chinamen	chinaman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Emperor	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the narrator state		which country			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality
2	is a	present	his courtiers	Chinamen					tree rules

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

Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Japan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Sweden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	China	China	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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