Exam question 4 · Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure: Peter learns Charlo…

In which century, by the account of the second tale, was Counsellor Knapp transported upon donning the goloshes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Counsellor · What happens: be, don, account · To what, where: goloshes, second tale

This is exam question 4 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 century	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 century	det
3	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 transported	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 account	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 account	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 account	det
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 century	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 tale	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tale	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 tale	amod
11	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 account	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 century	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 transported	cop
14	Counsellor	Counsellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 transported	nsubj
15	Knapp	Knapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Counsellor	flat
16	transported	transport	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	18 donning	mark
18	donning	don	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 transported	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 goloshes	det
20	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 donning	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 transported	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Counsellor		century	transport property	tree rules
2	don	gerund	Counsellor not said here	the goloshes			vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent golosh=Theme
3	account			the second tale			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Five hundred years earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 earlier	obl:unmarked
4	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2

Three hundred years earlier, in the reign of King Hans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 earlier	obl:unmarked
4	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reign	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 reign	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reign	det
8	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 earlier	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Hans	case
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Hans	nmod:desc
11	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reign	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three hundred years earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 earlier	obl:unmarked
4	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 4

Some three hundred years earlier, when the old kings ruled the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 years	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 earlier	obl:unmarked
5	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 ruled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ruled	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 ruled	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kings	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kings	amod
10	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ruled	nsubj
11	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	the old kings	the land				early property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

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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