Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

To what final fate did the soldier claim the elderly gentleman was consigned?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: final fate · What happens: do, claim, consign · To what, where: soldier, elderly gentleman

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 claim	obl
3	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fate	amod
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 consigned	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gentleman	det
10	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gentleman	amod
11	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 consigned	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 consigned	aux:pass
13	consigned	consign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 consigned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	final fate	the soldier	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality
2	claim speech: other	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to what=Recipient
3	consign	past · passive		the elderly gentleman	tree rules

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 grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a ditch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ditch	det
2	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a cell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cell	det
2	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bed	det
2	bed	bed	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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