Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…
Which object did the young wife discover while digging in the garden soil?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, young wife · What happens: do, discover, dig · To what, where: young wife, garden soil
This is exam question 1 of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» 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 | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | acl:relcl |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 digging | mark |
| 9 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 soil | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soil | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soil | compound |
| 13 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 digging | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the young wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | discover | present | the young wife not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dig | gerund | which object not said here | the garden soil | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in soil=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
the tin soldier of a long-dead boy
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 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soldier | compound |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 boy | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dead | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soldier | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ 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 3
a small lead figure from the old well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 figure | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 figure | amod |
| 3 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 figure | compound |
| 4 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 old | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 old | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 figure | amod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 old | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the wooden spoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spoon | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spoon | amod |
| 3 | spoon | spoon | 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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