Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

Which phenomenon caused the Turks' slippers to fly upward?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phenomenon · What happens: cause, fly · To what, where: slippers

This is exam question 3 of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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 phenomenon	det
2	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Turks	det
5	Turks	turk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 slippers	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 Turks	case
7	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fly	mark
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caused	advcl
10	upward	upward	ADV	_	9 fly	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	which phenomenon	the Turks's slippers					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition slipper=Patient
2	fly	to-infinitive	which phenomenon not said here					upward property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

the great display of fireworks and rockets lit up the whole night sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 display	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 display	amod
3	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fireworks	case
5	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 display	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rockets	cc
7	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fireworks	conj
8	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fireworks	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 lit	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sky	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sky	amod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sky	compound
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit up	participle	fireworks and rockets not said here	the whole night sky					tree rules
2	display			fireworks and rockets					nom display «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the bright moonlight over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moonlight	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moonlight	amod
3	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moonlight	nmod

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

Option 3

the display of fireworks that burst in the sky over the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 display	det
2	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fireworks	case
4	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 display	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 burst	nsubj
6	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 display	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burst	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burst	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	present	the display of fireworks			the sky		over the city	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location
2	display			fireworks					nom display «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the display of fireworks in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 display	det
2	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fireworks	case
4	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 display	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sky	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fireworks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	display			fireworks in the sky					nom display «communication transitive»: of=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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