Exam question 4 · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

What business did the young stranger Friedlin claim to have with Lucia?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: business · What happens: do, have · To what, where: young stranger

This is exam question 4 of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» 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	3 did	obj
2	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stranger	amod
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	Friedlin	Friedlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 claim	compound
8	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 claim	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 Lucia	case
12	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 have	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	business	the young stranger					tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	business not said here					with Lucia	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

a commission in needlework for his rich uncle's household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 commission	det
2	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 needlework	case
4	needlework	needlework	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 commission	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	10 household	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 uncle	nmod:poss
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 uncle	amod
8	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 household	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 uncle	case
10	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 commission	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a commission in needlework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 commission	det
2	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 needlework	case
4	needlework	needlework	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 commission	nmod

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

Option 3

a long-standing commission in fine embroidery and lace for the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 commission	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 commission	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
4	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 commission	amod
5	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 embroidery	case
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 embroidery	amod
8	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 commission	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lace	cc
10	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 embroidery	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 embroidery	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

an order for a new dress

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 order	det
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 dress	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dress	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dress	amod
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 order	nmod

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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