Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

What remark did the child make concerning the emperor's apparel, as reported in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: child · What happens: make, concern, report · To what, where: apparel, passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» 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	6 make	obj
2	remark	remark	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 make	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 emperor	det
9	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 apparel	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 emperor	case
11	apparel	apparel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reported	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 reported	mark
14	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 make	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 passage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 passage	det
17	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reported	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	the child			tree rules
2	concern	gerund	the child not said here	the emperor's apparel		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus apparel=Experiencer
3	report	participle			the passage	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=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

That the emperor looked very grand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 emperor	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 grand	advmod
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	that emperor					grand property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

That the emperor wore a golden crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 emperor	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crown	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crown	amod
7	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	that emperor	a golden crown					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme

Option 3

He has no clothes

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 clothes	det
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	no clothes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That the emperor had nothing on at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 emperor	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 had	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have on	past	that emperor	nothing		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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