Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is…
Which person is recorded as having first extinguished the fire upon the Tree?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: having · What happens: record, have, extinguish · To what, where: person, fire
This is exam question 2 of lesson 285 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 12: the Fir is cut down, decorated, and stripped bare by the children» 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recorded | aux:pass |
| 4 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 extinguished | mark |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 extinguished | csubj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 having | advmod |
| 8 | extinguished | extinguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recorded | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extinguished | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 Tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tree | det |
| 13 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fire | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 recorded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present · passive | which person | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | extinguish | past | having | the fire | upon the Tree | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
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 little fat man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The young ladies' elder brother and the old nurse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ladies | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ladies | amod |
| 3 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 ladies | case |
| 5 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nurse | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nurse | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nurse | amod |
| 10 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The children who had been hiding behind the sofa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hiding | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hiding | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hiding | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 hiding | aux |
| 6 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 sofa | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sofa | det |
| 9 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hiding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · perfect · progressive | the children | the sofa | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind sofa=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The young ladies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ladies | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ladies | amod |
| 3 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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