Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

What was the sole human utterance of the parrot?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sole human utterance · What happens: be, utter · To what, where: parrot

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 utterance	det
4	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 utterance	amod
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 utterance	amod
6	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 parrot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 parrot	det
9	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 utterance	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the sole human utterance of the parrot						tree rules
2	utter			the parrot					nom utterance «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

"Hello there"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct
2	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	3 there	discourse
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

"Be men."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 men	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 men	cop
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 men	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 men	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	imperative	you not said here	men					tree rules

Option 3

"Now let us dance."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	us			now		tree rules
2	dance in a quote	infinitive	us not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Now let us be men."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 men	cop
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	us			now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	is a in a quote	infinitive		men					tree rules

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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