Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is…

Which instrument provided music for the rescued persons at the farm of Borglum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instrument · What happens: provide, rescue · To what, where: music, farm

This is exam question 3 of lesson 804 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is slain, a funeral sounds, a ship is saved, and a bottle neck remembers its past» 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 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provided	nsubj
3	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provided	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 persons	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 persons	det
7	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 persons	amod
8	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 provided	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 farm	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farm	det
11	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provided	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Borglum	case
13	Borglum	Borglum	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 farm	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 provided	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	past	which instrument	music		the farm of Borglum		for the rescued persons	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition music=Theme for person=Beneficiary
2	rescue	participle							vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=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

A grand piano playing sad native melodies of the homeland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 piano	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 piano	amod
3	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 piano	acl
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 melodies	amod
6	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 melodies	amod
7	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 playing	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 homeland	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 homeland	det
10	homeland	homeland	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 melodies	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	a grand piano not said here	sad native melodies of the homeland					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melody=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A piano playing native melodies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piano	det
2	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 piano	acl
4	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 melodies	amod
5	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	a piano not said here	native melodies					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melody=Theme

Option 3

A fiddle playing folk songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fiddle	det
2	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fiddle	acl
4	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 songs	compound
5	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	a fiddle not said here	folk songs					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme

Option 4

A harmonium playing hymns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 harmonium	det
2	harmonium	harmonium	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 harmonium	acl
4	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	a harmonium not said here	hymns					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hymn=Theme

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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