Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

What was the colour of the shoes worn by Karen at her confirmation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Karen · What happens: be, wear, confirm · To what, where: colour, shoes, confirmation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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	4 colour	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 colour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 shoes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoes	det
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 colour	nmod
8	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 shoes	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Karen	case
10	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 worn	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 confirmation	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 confirmation	nmod:poss
13	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worn	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 colour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the colour		of the shoes	tree rules
2	wear	participle		the shoes not said here	Karen's confirmation	by Karen	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at confirmation=Source
3	confirm		Karen				nom confirmation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

Blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Tan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tan	Tan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Jet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jet	jet	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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