Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

In what condition was the dwelling found when it was finally demolished in the spring?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: be, find, demolish · To what, where: dwelling, condition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 dwelling	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dwelling	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwelling	det
6	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 demolished	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 demolished	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 demolished	aux:pass
11	finally	finally	ADV	_	12 demolished	advmod
12	demolished	demolish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 spring	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spring	det
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 demolished	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	what condition		the dwelling			tree rules
2	find	past						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	demolish	past · passive		condition		spring	finally property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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

as a fine new house for the family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	5 house	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 family	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod

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

Option 2

sold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	participle							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

burnt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

as a ruin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	3 ruin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ruin	det
3	ruin	ruin	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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