Exam question 3 · Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a…
Which character was revealed to be the queen in the course of Jesper's account?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jesper · What happens: reveal, be, account · To what, where: character, queen, course
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1786 «Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a hundred hares and collects three strange payments» 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 | 4 revealed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 revealed | aux:pass |
| 4 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 queen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 queen | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 revealed | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 course | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 course | det |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 queen | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 account | case |
| 13 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 account | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Jesper | case |
| 15 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 course | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 revealed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | past · passive | which character | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the queen | the course of Jesper's account | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | account | Jesper | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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
The stout old woman in a peasant's dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dress | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 peasant | det |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 peasant | case |
| 9 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The tall young girl in a dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dress | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dress | det |
| 7 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The stout old woman in a peasant's dress and her shabby little apron
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dress | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 peasant | det |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 peasant | case |
| 9 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 apron | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 apron | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 apron | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 apron | amod |
| 14 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The young maid in a fine silk gown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maid | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maid | amod |
| 3 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gown | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gown | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gown | amod |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gown | compound |
| 8 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maid | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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