Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…
Which object did the girl employ to sever the tulips from their stems?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, tulips · What happens: employ, sever, stem · To what, where: tulips, stems
This is exam question 1 of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» 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 | 6 employ | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 employ | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | nsubj |
| 6 | employ | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sever | mark |
| 8 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 employ | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tulips | det |
| 10 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sever | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 stems | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stems | nmod:poss |
| 13 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tulips | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 employ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · do-support | which object | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | sever | to-infinitive | which object not said here | the tulips | tulips's stems | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tulip=Theme from stem=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | stem | tulips = tulip | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
the kitchen's big tool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kitchen | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tool | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 kitchen | case |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tool | amod |
| 5 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the enormous steel knife from the kitchen drawer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knife | det |
| 2 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knife | amod |
| 3 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knife | compound |
| 4 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 drawer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 drawer | det |
| 7 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drawer | compound |
| 8 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knife | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the large sharp knife kept by the girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knife | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knife | amod |
| 3 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knife | amod |
| 4 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knife | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle | the large sharp knife not said here | by the girl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by girl=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the large sharp knife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knife | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knife | amod |
| 3 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knife | amod |
| 4 | knife | knife | 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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