Exam question 2 · Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure: Peter learns Charlo…

Which object is described in the text as bursting with exultation at the close of the first tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, burst · To what, where: object, text, close

This is exam question 2 of lesson 836 «Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure: Peter learns Charlotte is engaged, becomes famous, and the tale ends as the next one begins» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 text	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 text	det
7	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 bursting	mark
9	bursting	burst	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 exultation	case
11	exultation	exultation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bursting	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 close	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 close	det
14	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bursting	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 tale	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tale	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 tale	amod
18	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 close	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which object		the text			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	burst	gerund				the close of the first tale		with exultation	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at close=Location

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

Peter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Fire-drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drum	det
2	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drum	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Fire	punct
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The church bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bell	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bell	compound
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drum	det
2	drum	drum	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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