Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…

Which statement most accurately describes the function of the goloshes in this episode?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: statement · What happens: describe · To what, where: function

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 describes	advmod
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 function	det
7	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 goloshes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goloshes	det
10	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 function	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 episode	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 episode	det
13	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goloshes	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which statement	the function of the goloshes in this episode				accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent function=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They carry the soul away and return it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soul	det
4	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 carry	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 return	cc
7	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carry	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 return	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry away	present	They	the soul				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme
2	return	infinitive	They not said here	soul					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

They help the soul travel to the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 travel	det
4	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travel	compound
5	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 help	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moon	det
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travel	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	They	the soul travel				to the moon	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent travel=Beneficiary

Option 3

They make the soul very heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soul	det
4	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the soul				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soul=Product

Option 4

They are magical boots that carry the soul away and then bring it back safely

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boots	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boots	cop
3	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boots	amod
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 carry	nsubj
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boots	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soul	det
8	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 carry	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bring	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 bring	advmod
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 boots	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bring	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 bring	advmod
15	safely	safely	ADV	_	12 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	magical boots			tree rules
2	carry away	present	magical boots	the soul		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme
3	bring back	infinitive	They not said here	soul	then	safely property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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