Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a…

Which entity conducts the mother beneath the churchyard to the presence of her deceased child?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: entity · What happens: conduct, decease · To what, where: mother, churchyard

This is exam question 1 of lesson 810 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a mother's ghostly farewell ends, and a proud girl sneers at "sen" names at a party» 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 entity	det
2	entity	entity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conducts	nsubj
3	conducts	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conducts	obj
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 churchyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 churchyard	det
8	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conducts	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 presence	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 presence	det
11	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conducts	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 child	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 child	nmod:poss
14	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 presence	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 conducts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	present	which entity	the mother		the churchyard		to the presence of entity's deceased child	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mother=Theme beneath churchyard=Destination
2	decease	participle							vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Death, in the form of a spectre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 form	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 form	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 form	det
5	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Death	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 spectre	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spectre	det
8	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 form	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form			a spectre					nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A spectre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

An old sexton in a grey coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sexton	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sexton	amod
3	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 coat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coat	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coat	amod
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sexton	nmod

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

Option 4

Death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	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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