Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies…

Which object hung within the bird's cage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: hang

This is exam question 1 of lesson 807 «Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies the storm and is burnt black» 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 hung	nsubj
3	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	8 cage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cage	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bird	case
8	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	which object					within the bird's cage	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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

A small wooden cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cage	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cage	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cage	amod
4	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The neck of a bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neck	det
2	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bottle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bottle	det
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 neck	nmod

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

Option 4

A bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	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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