Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…
Which vehicle did the brother versed in the dictionary select for his journey to the court?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vehicle, his · What happens: do, verse, select, journey · To what, where: brother, dictionary
This is exam question 2 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 vehicle | det |
| 2 | vehicle | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | versed | verse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dictionary | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dictionary | det |
| 9 | dictionary | dictionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 versed | obl |
| 10 | select | select | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 versed | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 journey | nmod:poss |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 select | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 court | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 court | det |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 journey | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which vehicle | the brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | verse | participle | which vehicle not said here | the dictionary | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | select | infinitive | which vehicle not said here | for his journey to the court | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | journey | his = he | to the court | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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
a black horse with a silver saddle and bridle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 saddle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 saddle | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saddle | amod |
| 7 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bridle | cc |
| 9 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saddle | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a black horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a grey pony
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pony | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pony | amod |
| 3 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cart | det |
| 2 | cart | cart | 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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