Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…

What was the designation of the document carried in the student's right-hand pocket?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: designation · What happens: be, carry, designate · To what, where: hand pocket, document

This is exam question 2 of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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	8 carried	obj
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	4 designation	det
4	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 document	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 document	det
7	document	document	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designation	nmod
8	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	16 pocket	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 student	det
11	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pocket	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 student	case
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hand	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pocket	compound
16	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past				tree rules
2	carry	past	the designation of the document		the student's hand pocket	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location
3	designate			the document		nom designation «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 · ← Mova's choice

bank draft note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 draft	compound
2	draft	draft	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 note	compound
3	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

letter of credit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 credit	case
3	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 letter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	letter			credit					nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

passport

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	passport	passport	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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