Exam question 2 · Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alf…

What did the mother purchase in order to circulate the announcement of the betrothal?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, circulate, announce · To what, where: mother purchase, order, announcement, betrothal

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 purchase	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 purchase	compound
5	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 circulate	mark
9	circulate	circulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 announcement	det
11	announcement	announcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 circulate	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 betrothal	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 betrothal	det
14	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 announcement	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the mother purchase	order	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchase=Eventuality
2	circulate	to-infinitive	the announcement of the betrothal		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location announcement=Theme
3	announce		the betrothal		nom announcement «communication 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 · ✓ the right answer

thirty copies of the newspaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 copies	nummod
2	copies	copy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 newspaper	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 newspaper	det
5	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy			the newspaper					nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

thirty copies of the gazette

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 copies	nummod
2	copies	copy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 gazette	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gazette	det
5	gazette	gazette	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy			the gazette					nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

twenty copies of the paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 copies	nummod
2	copies	copy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 paper	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 paper	det
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy			the paper					nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

thirty copies of the newspaper sent to every relative in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 copies	nummod
2	copies	copy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 newspaper	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 newspaper	det
5	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	nmod
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 newspaper	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 relative	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 relative	det
9	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 town	case
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		the newspaper not said here		town		to every relative	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to relative=Destination
2	copy			the newspaper					nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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