Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…
To what did the attendant ascribe the presence of a fully clothed bather?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: attendant · What happens: ascribe, clothe · To what, where: presence
This is exam question 2 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=Rel | 6 ascribe | obl |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ascribe | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 attendant | det |
| 5 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ascribe | nsubj |
| 6 | ascribe | ascribe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 presence | det |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ascribe | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bather | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bather | det |
| 11 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 12 clothed | advmod |
| 12 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bather | amod |
| 13 | bather | bather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ascribe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascribe | past · do-support | the attendant | the presence of a clothed bather | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | clothe | participle | fully property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «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
a mistake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mistake | det |
| 2 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a wager
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wager | det |
| 2 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
an ancient custom of the bath house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 custom | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 custom | amod |
| 3 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 custom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a dispute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dispute | det |
| 2 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | 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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