Exam question 1 · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…

Pursuant to the narrative, by whom is the tale of Hans related?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tale

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tale	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tale	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tale	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tale	det
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 related	case
12	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 related	nsubj
13	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tale	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the tale				by the narrative; of related	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

By a Water-rat who lives by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 rat	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rat	det
3	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rat	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Water	punct
5	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lives	nsubj
7	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rat	acl:relcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a Water rat					by the river	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location

Option 2

By an old miller and his wife at the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 miller	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 miller	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 miller	amod
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wife	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 miller	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 mill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mill	det
10	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By a Green Linnet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 Linnet	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Linnet	det
3	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Linnet	amod
4	Linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By a grey heron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 heron	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 heron	det
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heron	amod
4	heron	heron	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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