Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

What is the refrain repeatedly uttered by the parrot Polly in this passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: refrain · What happens: be, utter · To what, where: refrain

This is exam question 2 of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 refrain	det
4	refrain	refrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	6 uttered	advmod
6	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 refrain	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 parrot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 parrot	det
9	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uttered	obl
10	Polly	Polly	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 parrot	appos
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 passage	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 passage	det
13	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parrot	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the refrain						tree rules
2	utter speech: other	participle		the refrain not said here				by the parrot in this passage; repeatedly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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

"Sing, let us be free!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
2	Sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sing	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 free	cop
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 let	xcomp
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Sing					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	is in a quote	infinitive	Sing not said here					free property	tree rules

Option 2

"Come, let us go home!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	conj
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	us		tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

"Hush, Polly!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Polly	punct
2	Hush	hush	INTJ	_	4 Polly	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Polly	punct
4	Polly	Polly	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Polly	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Polly	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Come, let us be men!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	conj
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 be	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	us	tree rules
3	be in a quote	infinitive	men		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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