Exam question 4 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans…

What did the Miller grieve over after the funeral?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miller · What happens: do, grieve over

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2038 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans drowns in the storm, and the Miller only frets about his wheelbarrow» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Miller	det
4	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 grieve	nsubj
5	grieve	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 grieve	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 funeral	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 funeral	det
9	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grieve	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	grieve over	present	the Miller				after the funeral	over property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

the lantern and the black cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lantern	det
2	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cloak	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloak	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloak	amod
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lantern	conj

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

Option 2

his new spade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 spade	nmod:poss
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spade	amod
3	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

his poor dead friend Hans at the grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friend	amod
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friend	amod
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hans	nsubj
5	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 grave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grave	det
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hans	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the wheelbarrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wheelbarrow	det
2	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	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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