Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…
Which of the following objects did the third son first discover upon the highway?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, do, discover · To what, where: third son
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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 did | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 objects | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 objects | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 objects | amod |
| 5 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 did | obl |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 discover | advmod |
| 11 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | advcl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 highway | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 highway | det |
| 14 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discover | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the third son | of the following objects | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | discover | present | upon the highway; first property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
a dead crow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crow | amod |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a lost glove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 glove | det |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 glove | amod |
| 3 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
a muddy boot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boot | det |
| 2 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boot | amod |
| 3 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
an old horseshoe with the nails still in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horseshoe | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horseshoe | amod |
| 3 | horseshoe | horseshoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 in | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 nails | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nails | det |
| 6 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 horseshoe | nmod |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 in | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 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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