Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back…

What was the nature of the injury Anne Lisbeth sustained while digging on the shore?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nature · What happens: be, sustain, dig · To what, where: shore

This is exam question 4 of lesson 795 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back her soul» 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	10 sustained	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sustained	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 injury	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 injury	det
7	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 injury	appos
9	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Anne	flat
10	sustained	sustain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 digging	mark
12	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sustained	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 shore	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shore	det
15	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 digging	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 sustained	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	is a	past			tree rules
2	sustain	past	the nature of the injury		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
3	dig	gerund	the nature of the injury not said here	the shore	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

A cut to her hand from broken glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cut	det
2	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 glass	case
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 glass	amod
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A wound to her arm from a shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wound	det
2	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 arm	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arm	nmod:poss
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wound	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 shell	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shell	det
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arm	nmod

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

Option 3

A scrape on her knee from rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scrape	det
2	scrape	scrape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 knee	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knee	nmod:poss
5	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scrape	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 rocks	case
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scrape	nmod

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

Option 4

A deep cut to her hand from a piece of broken glass she found in the sand

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cut	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cut	amod
3	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 piece	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 piece	det
9	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 glass	case
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 glass	amod
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 piece	nmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sand	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sand	det
17	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	find	past	a deep cut to cut's hand from a piece of broken glass			the sand			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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