Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

Where does the elder-tree bush first appear in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tree bush · What happens: be, appear · To what, where: narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bush	det
4	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 elder	punct
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bush	compound
7	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 appear	advmod
9	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bush	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 narrative	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 narrative	det
12	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appear	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tree bush					where property	tree rules
2	appear	present	the tree bush not said here			the narrative		first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in narrative=Location

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

In the kitchen by the teapot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 kitchen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kitchen	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 teapot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teapot	det
6	teapot	teapot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kitchen	nmod

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

Option 2

On the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 window	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 window	det
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

In the boy's bedroom, where it pushes aside the curtains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 bedroom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bedroom	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 boy	case
5	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bedroom	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 pushes	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pushes	nsubj
9	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	aside	aside	ADV	_	9 pushes	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 curtains	det
12	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pushes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	bedroom	the curtains		the boy's bedroom		aside property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme in bedroom=Trajectory

Option 4

In the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 garden	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	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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