Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests…

What was the principal meteorological condition on the night of the stranger's arrival?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stranger · What happens: be, arrive · To what, where: principal meteorological condition

This is exam question 3 of lesson 276 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests a wet visitor with three peas» 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	6 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 condition	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 condition	amod
5	meteorological	meteorological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 condition	amod
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 condition	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 arrival	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stranger	det
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arrival	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 stranger	case
14	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 night	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal meteorological condition			night		tree rules
2	arrive		the stranger						nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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

A violent tempest with thunder, lightning, hail and total darkness across the whole kingdom

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tempest	det
2	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tempest	amod
3	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 thunder	case
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tempest	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lightning	punct
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tempest	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hail	punct
9	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tempest	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 darkness	cc
11	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 darkness	amod
12	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hail	conj
13	across	across	ADP	_	16 kingdom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kingdom	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 kingdom	amod
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hail	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A violent tempest with thunder and lightning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tempest	det
2	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tempest	amod
3	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 thunder	case
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tempest	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lightning	cc
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tempest	conj

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

Option 3

A violent tempest with thunder and lightning, which knocked down several old trees near the palace gate

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tempest	det
2	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tempest	amod
3	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocked	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 thunder	case
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tempest	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lightning	cc
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tempest	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knocked	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 knocked	nsubj
10	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 knocked	compound:prt
12	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trees	amod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trees	amod
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knocked	obj
15	near	near	ADP	_	18 gate	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gate	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gate	compound
18	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	a violent tempest with thunder and lightning	several old trees		the palace gate			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tree=Theme near gate=Destination

Option 4

A violent gale with heavy rain and some distant noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gale	det
2	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gale	amod
3	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rain	case
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rain	amod
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gale	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 noise	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 noise	det
9	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 noise	amod
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gale	conj

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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