Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…
Which flower did the clerk involuntarily seize?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: flower, do, seize
This is exam question 1 of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 flower | nsubj |
| 2 | flower | flower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flower | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seize | det |
| 5 | clerk | clerk | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 seize | aux |
| 6 | involuntarily | involuntarily | ADV | _ | 7 seize | advmod |
| 7 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 flower | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flower | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | seize | infinitive | involuntarily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 lily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lily | det |
| 2 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a tulip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tulip | det |
| 2 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the daisy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 daisy | det |
| 2 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a violet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 violet | det |
| 2 | violet | violet | 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.
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