Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volu…
Which character first enters the hearts of the spectators?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character · What happens: enter · To what, where: hearts
This is exam question 1 of lesson 840 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volunteer shrinks to wander through strange hearts, then a clerk puts on the goloshes and feels like a poet» 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 character | det |
| 2 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enters | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 enters | advmod |
| 4 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hearts | det |
| 6 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 enters | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 spectators | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spectators | det |
| 9 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hearts | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 enters | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | present | which character | the hearts of the spectators | first property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Destination |
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 poet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 poet | det |
| 2 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The watchman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 watchman | det |
| 2 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The volunteer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 volunteer | det |
| 2 | volunteer | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The clerk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clerk | det |
| 2 | clerk | clerk | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/840-pg27200-part51/e1/