Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Daisy, part 22: a lark sings to a po…

Describe the manner in which the peonies and tulips received the attentions of the lark.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, peonies, lark · What happens: describe, receive, attend · To what, where: manner, attentions

This is exam question 2 of lesson 811 «Andersen's Tales, The Daisy, part 22: a lark sings to a poor daisy while the proud flowers sulk» 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 received	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peonies	det
7	peonies	peony	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 received	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tulips	cc
9	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 peonies	conj
10	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 manner	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 attentions	det
12	attentions	attention	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 received	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lark	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lark	det
15	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attentions	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the manner		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
2	receive	past	the peonies and tulips	the attentions of the lark	the manner	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent attention=Theme in which=Location
3	attend		the lark			nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

They took no notice of it and were sulky and vexed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 notice	det
4	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 notice	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sulky	cc
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sulky	cop
9	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 vexed	cc
11	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sulky	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	They	no notice of notice		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
2	is	past	They not said here		sulky property	tree rules
3	vex	participle	They not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	notice			notice		nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

They just stood still and were sulky, vexed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sulky	cc
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sulky	cop
7	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vexed	punct
9	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	They	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	They not said here		sulky property	tree rules
3	vex	participle	They not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They pretended not to see it and stayed upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 pretended	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pretended	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stayed	cc
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pretended	conj
9	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not pretend	past	They			tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	They not said here	it		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	stay	past	They not said here		upset property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They were sulky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sulky	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sulky	cop
3	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					sulky property	tree rules

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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