Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a…

What petition does the mother offer upon awakening at the grave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: petition, mother offer · What happens: do, awaken · To what, where: mother offer, grave

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 petition	det
2	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 offer	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offer	compound
6	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 awakening	mark
8	awakening	awaken	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 offer	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 grave	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grave	det
11	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 awakening	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	what petition	the mother offer					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Eventuality
2	awaken	gerund	the mother offer not said here			the grave			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at grave=Location

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 plea for her husband's health

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plea	det
2	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 health	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 health	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 husband	case
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plea	nmod

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

Option 2

A wish for her child's rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wish	det
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 rest	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rest	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wish	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A prayer for forgiveness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 prayer	det
2	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 forgiveness	case
4	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prayer	nmod

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

Option 4

A prayer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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