Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

What was the appearance of the visitor who knocked at the door?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: appearance, visitor · What happens: be, knock

This is exam question 4 of lesson 303 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shadow comes back as a rich, fine gentleman» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 appearance	det
4	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 visitor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 visitor	det
7	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appearance	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 knocked	nsubj
9	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 visitor	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knocked	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the appearance of the visitor						tree rules
2	knock	past	the visitor					at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=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 · ✓ the right answer

Extremely lean and finely attired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Extremely	extremely	ADV	_	2 lean	advmod
2	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 attired	cc
4	finely	finely	ADV	_	5 attired	advmod
5	attired	attire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	imperative	you not said here					extremely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	attire	participle	you not said here					finely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Quite lean and roughly clothed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quite	quite	ADV	_	2 lean	advmod
2	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 clothed	cc
4	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	5 clothed	advmod
5	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clothe	participle	you not said here					roughly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Extremely lean and finely attired in black silk and gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Extremely	extremely	ADV	_	2 lean	advmod
2	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 attired	cc
4	finely	finely	ADV	_	5 attired	advmod
5	attired	attire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lean	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 silk	case
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 silk	amod
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attired	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gloves	cc
10	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 silk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	imperative	you not said here					extremely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	attire	participle	you not said here					in black silk and gloves; finely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in silk=Theme

Option 4

Extremely lean and finely attired, with a long pale face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Extremely	extremely	ADV	_	2 lean	advmod
2	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 attired	cc
4	finely	finely	ADV	_	5 attired	advmod
5	attired	attire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lean	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 face	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 face	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 face	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	imperative	you not said here					with a long pale face; extremely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	attire	participle	you not said here					finely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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