Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

Which object did the beetle use in order to cross the ditch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, cross · To what, where: beetle use, ditch

This is exam question 1 of lesson 799 «Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves his wife, and is rescued from the sea» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 use	det
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	compound
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 cross	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cross	mark
10	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ditch	det
12	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cross	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the beetle use					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Eventuality
2	cross	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the ditch					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ditch=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

a piece of bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bark	case
4	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

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

Option 2

a wet bit of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nmod

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

Option 3

a twig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 twig	det
2	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a cabbage leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 leaf	det
2	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaf	compound
3	leaf	leaf	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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