Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

Which request did the listeners make at the close of the first story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: request, listeners · What happens: do, make · To what, where: close

This is exam question 1 of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» 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 request	det
2	request	request	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 listeners	det
5	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 close	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 close	det
9	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 story	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 story	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 story	amod
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 close	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which request						tree rules
2	make	present	the listeners			the close of the first story			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 tale about a brave prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 prince	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prince	det
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prince	amod
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tale	nmod

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

Option 2

another tale, namely of Ivede-Avede and the three golden birds of the king

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 namely	punct
4	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tale	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Ivede	case
6	Ivede	Ivede	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tale	nmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Avede	punct
8	Avede	Avede	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ivede	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 birds	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 birds	nummod
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 birds	amod
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Ivede	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 king	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 birds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell		Ivede and Avede and the three golden birds of the king						nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

another tale, namely of Ivede-Avede

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 namely	punct
4	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tale	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Ivede	case
6	Ivede	Ivede	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tale	nmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Avede	punct
8	Avede	Avede	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ivede	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell		Ivede and Avede						nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

one more song, and then bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 song	nummod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 song	amod
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bed	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 bed	advmod
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 song	conj

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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