Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…
What did the old Father-Rat signify to the other rats present?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old Father Rat · What happens: signify
This is exam question 4 of lesson 817 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows strangers down into the Paris sewers» 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 signify | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 signify | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rat | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Rat | amod |
| 5 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rat | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Father | punct |
| 7 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 signify | nsubj |
| 8 | signify | signify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 rats | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rats | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rats | amod |
| 12 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 signify | obl |
| 13 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rats | amod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 signify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | past · do-support | the old Father Rat | to the other rats | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme to rat=Attribute |
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
He was the one they all feared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 feared | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 they | det |
| 7 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | they | the one not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He was the leader whose words they endorsed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leader | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leader | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leader | det |
| 4 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leader | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 endorsed | nsubj |
| 8 | endorsed | endorse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leader | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | the leader | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | endorse | past | words = word | the leader not said here | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | word | the leader | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
He was the leader they obeyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leader | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leader | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leader | det |
| 4 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 obeyed | nsubj |
| 6 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leader | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | the leader | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | obey | past | they | the leader not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
He led them through the sewers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 sewers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sewers | det |
| 6 | sewers | sewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 led | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | He | them = they | the sewers | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme through sewer=Destination |
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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