Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…

In what manner did the brothers conduct themselves upon the road to Court?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: conduct, court · To what, where: brothers, manner

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conduct	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 conduct	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 conduct	nsubj
7	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 conduct	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conduct	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Court	case
13	Court	court	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 conduct	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 conduct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	past · do-support	the brothers	brothers = brother		what manner		upon the road	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in manner=Destination
2	court	infinitive							vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: 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

in silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 silence	case
2	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

singing old songs loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 songs	amod
3	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 singing	obj
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 singing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		old songs				loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3

in loud arguments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 arguments	case
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arguments	amod
3	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

in silent meditation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 meditation	case
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meditation	amod
3	meditation	meditation	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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