Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…
Which article did the watchman deliver to the police-office?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: article · What happens: deliver · To what, where: police
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 article | det |
| 2 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deliver | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deliver | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 watchman | det |
| 5 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deliver | nsubj |
| 6 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 police | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 police | det |
| 9 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deliver | obl |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 office | punct |
| 11 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 police | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 deliver | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past · do-support | which article | the police and office | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to police=Destination |
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 pair of galoshes and a walking stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 galoshes | case |
| 4 | galoshes | galosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pair | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stick | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 7 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stick | compound |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pair | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a pair of galoshes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 galoshes | case |
| 4 | galoshes | galosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pair | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a pair of gloves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gloves | case |
| 4 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pair | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a pot of ointment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pot | det |
| 2 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ointment | case |
| 4 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pot | 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/281-pg1597-part8/e4/