Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…

To what destination did the copying-clerk propose to travel on leaving the office?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: copying clerk · What happens: propose, travel, leave · To what, where: office

This is exam question 1 of lesson 281 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the man tours the hearts, then the clerk takes the galoshes» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 propose	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clerk	det
6	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clerk	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 copying	punct
8	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 propose	nsubj
9	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 travel	mark
11	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 propose	xcomp
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 leaving	mark
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 travel	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 office	det
15	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	the copying clerk		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	travel	to-infinitive	the copying clerk not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	gerund	the copying clerk not said here	the office	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=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 hills outside the capital city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hills	det
2	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 city	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 city	compound
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hills	nmod

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

Option 2

Heidelberg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the seaside town of Elsinore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 town	det
2	seaside	seaside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 town	amod
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Elsinore	case
5	Elsinore	Elsinore	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 town	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fredericksburg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fredericksburg	Fredericksburg	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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