Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…
Which subjects did the rats desire to hear of in a tale?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rats · What happens: subject, do, desire, hear · To what, where: tale
This is exam question 4 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 subjects | nsubj |
| 2 | subjects | subject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 subjects | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rats | det |
| 5 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 desire | nsubj |
| 6 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 desire | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hear | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tale | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 subjects | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subject | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | desire | present | the rats | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | the rats not said here | a tale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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
bacon and tallow in the storeroom and the cheese and hams hanging up there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tallow | cc |
| 3 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bacon | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 storeroom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 storeroom | det |
| 6 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bacon | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cheese | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cheese | det |
| 9 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bacon | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hams | cc |
| 11 | hams | ham | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 bacon | conj |
| 12 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 bacon | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 hanging | compound:prt |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 hanging | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang up | gerund | bacon in the storeroom and tallow and the cheese and hams not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
sugar and butter in the cellar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 butter | cc |
| 3 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sugar | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cellar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cellar | det |
| 6 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sugar | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
mice and cheese in the kitchen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cheese | cc |
| 3 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 mice | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 kitchen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kitchen | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 mice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
bacon and tallow in the storeroom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tallow | cc |
| 3 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bacon | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 storeroom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 storeroom | det |
| 6 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bacon | nmod |
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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