Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies…

What was the butterfly's final encounter before the tale closed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: final encounter, butterfly · What happens: be, close, encounter · To what, where: final encounter

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 butterfly	det
4	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 encounter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 butterfly	case
6	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 encounter	amod
7	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 tale	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tale	det
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 encounter	nmod
11	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 encounter	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the butterfly's final encounter before the tale			tree rules
2	close	participle		the butterfly's final encounter before the tale not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	encounter		the butterfly		before the tale	nom encounter «act transitive»: poss=agent before=obl

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 · ✓ the right answer

An unfinished proposal to the pea-blossom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 proposal	det
2	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proposal	amod
3	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 blossom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blossom	det
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blossom	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 pea	punct
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proposal	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A quarrel with the old willow tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quarrel	det
2	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
6	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarrel	nmod

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

Option 3

An unfinished proposal to the pea-blossom, which he never finished because the daisy scolded him

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 proposal	det
2	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proposal	amod
3	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finished	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 blossom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blossom	det
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blossom	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 pea	punct
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proposal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 finished	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 finished	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finished	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 finished	advmod
13	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 scolded	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 daisy	det
16	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 scolded	nsubj
17	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 finished	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scolded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not finish	past	a unfinished proposal to the pea blossom						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality which=Eventuality
2	scold	past	the daisy	proposal					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

An unfinished proposal to the pea-blossom, cut short by the sudden arrival of the storm

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 proposal	det
2	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proposal	amod
3	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	nsubj:pass
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 blossom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blossom	det
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blossom	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 pea	punct
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proposal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cut	xcomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 arrival	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 arrival	det
14	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 arrival	amod
15	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 storm	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 storm	det
18	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrival	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle · passive	the sudden arrival of the storm	a unfinished proposal to the pea blossom				short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
2	arrive		the storm						nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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