Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…
Which place did the watchman's body first reach after it appeared dead?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: place, it · What happens: do, appear · To what, where: body
This is exam question 1 of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 watchman | det |
| 5 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 watchman | case |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 reach | amod |
| 9 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 appeared | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appeared | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which place | the watchman's body | first reach obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | appear | past | it | dead property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
The station
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 station | det |
| 2 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The hospital
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hospital | det |
| 2 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The local hospital ward downtown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 downtown | det |
| 2 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 downtown | amod |
| 3 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ward | compound |
| 4 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 downtown | compound |
| 5 | downtown | downtown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A distant hospital on the far side of town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hospital | det |
| 2 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hospital | amod |
| 3 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 side | amod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hospital | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/280-pg1597-part7/e1/