Exam question 4 · Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alf…
What was the principal reason given for the family's journey to Italy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: be, give, journey · To what, where: principal reason, Italy
This is exam question 4 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 | 5 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 4 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reason | amod |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reason | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 family | case |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Italy | case |
| 13 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the principal reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | participle | the principal reason not said here | Italy | for the family's journey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent for journey=Asset to italy=Recipient | |||
| 3 | journey | the family | nom journey «act transitive»: 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
the doctor's orders for mamma's worsening cough and tired lungs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 orders | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 doctor | case |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 cough | case |
| 6 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cough | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 mamma | case |
| 8 | worsening | worsen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 cough | amod |
| 9 | cough | cough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 orders | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lungs | cc |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lungs | amod |
| 12 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 orders | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worsen | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | order | the doctor | for mamma's worsening cough | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | |||||
| 3 | cough | mamma | nom cough «state transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a change of air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 change | det |
| 2 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 air | case |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | air | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3
the sea breeze
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 breeze | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breeze | compound |
| 3 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a warmer climate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 climate | det |
| 2 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 climate | amod |
| 3 | climate | climate | 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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