Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volu…

What was the principal consequence of the volunteer's adventure in the steam bath?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: volunteer · What happens: be, adventure · To what, where: principal consequence, steam bath

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 adventure	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 volunteer	det
8	volunteer	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 adventure	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 volunteer	case
10	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 bath	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bath	det
13	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bath	compound
14	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 adventure	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal consequence				of the volunteer's adventure in the steam bath	tree rules
2	adventure		the volunteer			the steam bath			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

A painful blistering of his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blistering	det
2	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blistering	amod
3	blistering	blistering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blistering	nmod

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

Option 2

A sudden fever in his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fever	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fever	amod
3	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fever	nmod

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

Option 3

A long cold in his chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cold	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cold	amod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 chest	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 chest	nmod:poss
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cold	obl

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

Option 4

A painful blistering of his back and neck from the steam bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blistering	det
2	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blistering	amod
3	blistering	blistering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blistering	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 neck	cc
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 bath	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bath	det
11	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bath	compound
12	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blistering	nmod

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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