Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…
According to the narrator, what distinguishes future events from the hearts of people?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accord, distinguish · To what, where: future events
This is exam question 3 of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 narrator | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 narrator | det |
| 4 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distinguishes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 distinguishes | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 distinguishes | nsubj |
| 7 | distinguishes | distinguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 events | amod |
| 9 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 distinguishes | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 hearts | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hearts | det |
| 12 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 events | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hearts | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 distinguishes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | distinguish | present | future events | accord the narrator; from the hearts of people | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent event=Theme from heart=Co-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 former appear openly to the eye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 former | det |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 3 appear | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 eye | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eye | det |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appear | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the former | to the eye; openly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The former are inevitably revealed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 former | det |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 revealed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 revealed | aux:pass |
| 4 | inevitably | inevitably | ADV | _ | 5 revealed | advmod |
| 5 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | present · passive | the former | inevitably property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Future events are shown to everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 events | amod |
| 2 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shown | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shown | aux:pass |
| 4 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 everyone | case |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 shown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | Future events | everyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to everyone=Recipient |
Option 4
The former are inevitably revealed while the latter stay hidden from sight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 former | det |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 revealed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 revealed | aux:pass |
| 4 | inevitably | inevitably | ADV | _ | 5 revealed | advmod |
| 5 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 latter | det |
| 8 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 revealed | advcl |
| 10 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stay | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hidden | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | present · passive | the former | inevitably property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | the latter | hidden property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/839-pg27200-part50/e3/