Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

What remark did the fly make upon finding the beetle bound to the mast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fly · What happens: be, do, make, find, bind · To what, where: beetle

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	remark	remark	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fly	det
5	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 finding	mark
8	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 make	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beetle	det
10	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finding	obj
11	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 beetle	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 mast	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mast	det
14	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bound	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present				tree rules
2	do	past				tree rules
3	make	present	the fly			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	find	gerund	the fly not said here	the beetle		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Topic
5	bind	participle		the beetle not said here	to the mast	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to mast=Co-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

"What beautiful weather," said the fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 weather	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 weather	nsubj
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weather	amod
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 weather	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 weather	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fly	det
9	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weather in a quote								tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	beautiful weather	the fly					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fly=Topic

Option 2

"What a sad sight," said the bee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sight	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 sight	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sight	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sight	amod
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sight	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sight	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bee	det
10	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sight in a quote								tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a sad sight	the bee					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bee=Topic

Option 3

"What wonderful wind," said the wasp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 wind	nsubj
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wind	amod
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wasp	det
9	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wind in a quote								tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	wonderful wind	the wasp					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wasp=Topic

Option 4

"Hello," said the fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hello	punct
2	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hello	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hello	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fly	det
7	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fly						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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