Exam question 1 · Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alf…
Which person did Alfred first agree to marry in the course of this part?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: person · What happens: agree, marry · To what, where: course
This is exam question 1 of lesson 797 «Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds Sophy» 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agree | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agree | aux |
| 4 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 agree | nsubj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 agree | advmod |
| 6 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 agree | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 course | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 course | det |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 part | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 part | det |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 course | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · do-support | which person | first property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | which person not said here | the course of this part | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
Kaela
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Kaela's older sister Ellen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kaela | case |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Marta
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marta | Marta | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sophy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophy | sophy | 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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