Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

Which phrase correctly identifies the agent by whom the Dryad was finally reproved?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: identify, reprove · To what, where: agent, Dryad

This is exam question 1 of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identifies	nsubj
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 identifies	advmod
4	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 agent	det
6	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identifies	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 whom	case
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 identifies	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Dryad	det
10	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 reproved	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reproved	aux:pass
12	finally	finally	ADV	_	13 reproved	advmod
13	reproved	reprove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 whom	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	present	which phrase	the agent				correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agent=Theme
2	reprove	past · passive		the Dryad				finally property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

the notes of the organ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 notes	det
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 organ	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 organ	det
5	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 notes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	note			the organ					nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

the tunes of the swallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tunes	det
2	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 swallow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swallow	det
5	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tunes	nmod

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

Option 3

the church bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bell	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bell	compound
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the sweet notes of the organ played in the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 notes	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 notes	amod
3	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 played	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 organ	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 organ	det
6	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 notes	nmod
7	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 church	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 church	det
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the sweet notes of the organ			the church			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	note			the organ					nom note «communication 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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