Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Pr…

Which term best characterises the narrator's attitude toward the account of the events that the newspaper printed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: term · What happens: characteris, print, account · To what, where: attitude, events

This is exam question 3 of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden 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 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 term	advmod
4	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attitude	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 narrator	case
8	attitude	attitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	obj
9	toward	toward	ADP	_	11 account	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 account	det
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 events	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 events	det
14	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 account	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 printed	nsubj:pass
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 newspaper	det
17	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 printed	nsubj:pass
18	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 events	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which term	the narrator's attitude	toward the account of the events	tree rules
2	print	participle · passive		the events		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	account			the events		nom account «communication transitive»: of=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

Sceptical, as to its reliability

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sceptical	sceptical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reliability	punct
3	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 reliability	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 as	fixed
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 reliability	nmod:poss
6	reliability	reliability	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sceptical	obl

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

Option 2

Indifferent, as to its origin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 origin	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 origin	punct
3	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 origin	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 as	fixed
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 origin	nmod:poss
6	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Trusting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trusting	trust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	gerund							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Confident, as to its accuracy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 accuracy	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 accuracy	punct
3	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 accuracy	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 as	fixed
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 accuracy	nmod:poss
6	accuracy	accuracy	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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