Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

In which location did the young man and the lady take their parting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: do, take, part · To what, where: young man, location, parting

This is exam question 2 of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lady	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
11	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 parting	nmod:poss
13	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		the young man and the lady	which location	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	take	infinitive		man's parting		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parting=Theme
3	part		man			nom parting «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 arbor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the meadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	town	town	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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