Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

Where did Karen seek employment upon her final repentance?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Karen · What happens: seek, repent · To what, where: employment, final repentance

This is exam question 4 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 seek	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seek	aux
3	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seek	nsubj
4	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seek	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 repentance	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 repentance	nmod:poss
8	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 repentance	amod
9	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seek	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 seek	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past · do-support	Karen	employment		Karen's final repentance			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent employment=Theme upon repentance=Location
2	repent		Karen						nom repentance «feeling 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

In the old mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 mill	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mill	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mill	amod
4	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

At the house of the parson and his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 parson	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parson	det
6	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wife	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	conj

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

Option 3

At the village inn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 inn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 inn	det
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inn	compound
4	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

At the parsonage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 parsonage	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parsonage	det
3	parsonage	parsonage	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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