Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

On what surface did the old clock's weight come to rest when the child was removed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, come, rest, remove · To what, where: weight, surface, child

This is exam question 2 of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 surface	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 surface	det
3	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clock	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clock	amod
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weight	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 clock	case
9	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 rest	mark
12	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	xcomp
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 removed	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 removed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 removed	aux:pass
17	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rest	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the old clock's weight	what surface	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality
2	come	infinitive			tree rules
3	rest	to-infinitive			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remove	past · passive	the child		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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

dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the hearth stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stones	det
2	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stones	compound
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	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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