Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

Which object did the elderly gentleman identify as the gift for which he expressed gratitude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, gentleman · What happens: identify, express · To what, where: gratitude

This is exam question 1 of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 identify	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gentleman	det
5	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gentleman	amod
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	nsubj
7	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 gift	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gift	det
10	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 expressed	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 expressed	nsubj
14	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gift	acl:relcl
15	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 expressed	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	past · do-support	which object					as the gift	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as gift=Attribute
2	express	past	gentleman	gratitude				for the gift	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme

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 dancing figure on the shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 figure	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figure	amod
3	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	compound
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 shelf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shelf	det
7	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	nmod

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

Option 2

the wooden horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the pewter soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
2	pewter	pewter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soldier	amod
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	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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