Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…
What was the title of the poem recited at the King Street theatre?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, recite · To what, where: title, poem, Street theatre
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 title | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 title | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 title | det |
| 4 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 poem | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poem | det |
| 7 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 title | nmod |
| 8 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 poem | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 theatre | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 theatre | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Street | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 theatre | compound |
| 13 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recited | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 title | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the title | of the poem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recite | participle | the poem not said here | the Street theatre | vn performance-26.7-1 «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
The Aunt's Spectacles of Fortune and Fate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Aunt | det |
| 2 | Aunt | Aunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Aunt | case |
| 4 | Spectacles | Spectacles | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Fortune | case |
| 6 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Spectacles | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Fate | cc |
| 8 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fortune | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
My Aunt's Spectacles and the Strange Nephew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Aunt | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Aunt | case |
| 4 | Spectacles | Spectacles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Aunt | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Nephew | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Nephew | det |
| 7 | Strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Nephew | amod |
| 8 | Nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Aunt | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
My Aunt's Spectacles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Aunt | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Aunt | case |
| 4 | Spectacles | Spectacles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Aunt | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Shoes of Fortune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Shoes | det |
| 2 | Shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Fortune | case |
| 4 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Shoes | 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.
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