Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…
By what conveyance is the young man travelling when first described?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: conveyance, young man · What happens: be, travel, describe · To what, where: young man
This is exam question 4 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | conveyance | conveyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 man | acl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 described | advmod |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 described | advmod |
| 11 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 travelling | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | conveyance | the young man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | the young man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | describe | participle | the young man not said here | first property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 right answer
a diligence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 diligence | det |
| 2 | diligence | diligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a large old diligence coach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coach | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coach | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coach | amod |
| 4 | diligence | diligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coach | compound |
| 5 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cart | det |
| 2 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a carriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 carriage | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/283-pg1597-part10/e4/