Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

Identify the substance with which the cook fastened the handkerchief to the garment.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cook · What happens: identify, fasten · To what, where: substance, handkerchief

This is exam question 4 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fastened	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fastened	nsubj
8	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 substance	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 handkerchief	det
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fastened	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 garment	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garment	det
13	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fastened	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the substance					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	fasten	past	the cook	the handkerchief				with the substance; to the garment	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient with which=Instrument to garment=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

sealing-wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sealing	sealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wax	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 sealing	punct
3	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

glue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a dab of glue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dab	det
2	dab	dab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 glue	case
4	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dab	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dab			glue					nom dab «act transitive»: of=patient

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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