Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pasto…
Identify the criminal who, in the first part, cries out in his sleep and is restrained by his fellow prisoners.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fellow prisoners, his · What happens: identify, cry out, restrain, sleep · To what, where: criminal, first part, sleep
This is exam question 2 of lesson 791 «Andersen's Tales, By the Almshouse Window, part 2: a pastor's dream of sinners, then an old maid watches children play while an angel carries a dead child to heaven» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 criminal | det |
| 3 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 part | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 part | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 part | amod |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cries | punct |
| 11 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 cries | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cries | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 restrained | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 restrained | aux:pass |
| 18 | restrained | restrain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cries | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 prisoners | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 prisoners | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prisoners | amod |
| 22 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 restrained | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the criminal | the first part | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | present | his sleep | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Location | |||||
| 3 | restrain | present · passive | his fellow prisoners | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 4 | sleep | his = he | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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
Jo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Hans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Matz
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matz | Matz | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ole | ole | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/791-pg27200-part2/e2/