Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

What is the principal subject of the shadow's account of his three weeks in the adjacent dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shadow · What happens: be, account · To what, where: principal subject, three weeks

This is exam question 2 of lesson 304 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow returns as a fine gentleman and boasts of what he saw» 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	5 subject	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 subject	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 subject	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 subject	amod
5	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 account	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shadow	det
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 account	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 shadow	case
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 subject	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 weeks	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 weeks	nmod:poss
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 weeks	nummod
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 account	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 dwelling	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dwelling	det
17	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dwelling	amod
18	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weeks	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 subject	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal subject				of the shadow's account of his three weeks in the adjacent dwelling	tree rules
2	account		the shadow	his three weeks in the adjacent dwelling					nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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

His new clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 clothes	nmod:poss
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clothes	amod
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root

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

Option 2

His meeting with Poesy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 meeting	nmod:poss
2	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Poesy	case
4	Poesy	poesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meeting	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

His journey through the town and his visits to many friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 journey	nmod:poss
2	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 journey	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 visits	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 visits	nmod:poss
8	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 journey	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 friends	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friends	amod
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 visits	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	journey		His = he			the town			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent through=place
2	visit		his = he					to many friends	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His encounter with Poesy and his acquisition of human form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 encounter	nmod:poss
2	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Poesy	case
4	Poesy	poesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 encounter	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 acquisition	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 acquisition	nmod:poss
7	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 encounter	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 form	case
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 form	amod
10	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acquisition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	encounter		His = he					with Poesy	nom encounter «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl
2	acquire		his = he	human form					nom acquisition «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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