Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…
What did the angel wear upon his person?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: angel wear
This is exam question 3 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wear | det |
| 4 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wear | compound |
| 5 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 person | nmod:poss |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the angel wear | upon his person | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wear=Eventuality |
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
A white robe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 robe | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 robe | amod |
| 3 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A long white cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cloak | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloak | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloak | amod |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Long white garments
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 garments | amod |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 garments | amod |
| 3 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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