Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

Which vehicle was employed to convey the deceased gentleman to his place of interment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: employ, convey, decease · To what, where: vehicle, deceased gentleman, place

This is exam question 3 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 vehicle	det
2	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 employed	aux:pass
4	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 convey	mark
6	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 employed	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gentleman	det
8	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 gentleman	amod
9	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 convey	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 place	nmod:poss
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 convey	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 interment	case
14	interment	interment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 employed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	employ	past · passive	which vehicle		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	convey	to-infinitive	the deceased gentleman	gentleman's place of interment	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gentleman=Topic to place=Recipient
3	decease	participle			vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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

a wagon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

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 3 · ✓ the right answer

a hearse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a cab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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