Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet,…
Which party was admitted to lodge at the inn upon the tender of an egg and of the duck?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: admit, lodge, tender · To what, where: party, inn, egg
This is exam question 4 of lesson 738 «Grimm's Tales, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet, part 14: the goose-girl is avenged, then the friends drive to visit Mr Korbes» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 party | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 admitted | aux:pass |
| 4 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lodge | mark |
| 6 | lodge | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 admitted | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 inn | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 inn | det |
| 9 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodge | obl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 tender | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tender | det |
| 12 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodge | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 egg | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 egg | det |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tender | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 duck | cc |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 duck | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 duck | det |
| 19 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 egg | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 admitted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | past · passive | which party | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lodge | to-infinitive | the inn | upon the tender of a egg and the duck | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location | ||||
| 3 | tender | a egg and the duck | nom tender «possession transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
Chanticleer and the fox with the mice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chanticleer | chanticleer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fox | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chanticleer | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mice | det |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chanticleer | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Chanticleer, Partlet, and all the mice, cats, and the fox besides
The tree, 10 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chanticleer | chanticleer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Partlet | punct |
| 3 | Partlet | partlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chanticleer | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mice | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mice | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 mice | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mice | det |
| 8 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chanticleer | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cats | punct |
| 10 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mice | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fox | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fox | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chanticleer | conj |
| 15 | besides | besides | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chanticleer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Chanticleer and Partlet with their companions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chanticleer | chanticleer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Partlet | cc |
| 3 | Partlet | partlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chanticleer | conj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 companions | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 companions | nmod:poss |
| 6 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chanticleer | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The entire group of travelers including the needle, pin, and the millstone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 group | det |
| 2 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 group | amod |
| 3 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 travelers | case |
| 5 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 group | nmod |
| 6 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 needle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 needle | det |
| 8 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travelers | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pin | punct |
| 10 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needle | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 millstone | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 millstone | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 millstone | det |
| 14 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 group | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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