Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…

Which author is named in the conversation as the writer of a novel not yet read?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: novel · What happens: name, not read · To what, where: author, conversation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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 author	det
2	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 named	aux:pass
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 conversation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 conversation	det
7	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 writer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 writer	det
10	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conversation	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 novel	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 novel	det
13	novel	novel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 writer	nmod
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 read	advmod
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 read	advmod
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 novel	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 named	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive		which author		the conversation as the writer of a novel			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not read	infinitive	a novel not said here				yet		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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

Holberg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Hans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Ewald

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ewald	Ewald	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Heiberg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heiberg	Heiberg	PROPN	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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