Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…

In which year does the account place the war of the buccaneers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: buccaneers · What happens: do, war · To what, where: account place

This is exam question 4 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 year	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
6	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	compound
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 war	det
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 buccaneers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 buccaneers	det
12	buccaneers	buccaneer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 war	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the account place the war of the buccaneers			year		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality
2	war		the buccaneers						nom war «act intransitive»: of=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

In the year after the great fever swept the town, in the late autumn of 1491

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 year	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swept	obl
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 fever	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fever	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fever	amod
7	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 year	nmod
8	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swept	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 autumn	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 autumn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 autumn	det
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 autumn	amod
15	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swept	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 1491	case
17	1491	1491	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 autumn	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	past		the town			autumn; year		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

1490

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1490	1490	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

In the fourteen-nineties, the decade after the great plague and the flood of the river

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 nineties	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nineties	det
3	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nineties	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fourteen	punct
5	nineties	ninety	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 decade	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 decade	det
8	decade	decade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nineties	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 plague	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plague	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plague	amod
12	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nineties	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flood	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flood	det
15	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plague	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flood	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood		the river						nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

900

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	900	900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

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