Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…
What was the principal means employed by the travellers to repel the insects?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: principal · What happens: be, mean, employ, repel · To what, where: insects · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 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 | 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 | 4 principal | det |
| 4 | principal | principal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | ccomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 travellers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 travellers | det |
| 9 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 employed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 repel | mark |
| 11 | repel | repel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 employed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 insects | det |
| 13 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 repel | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | the principal | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | employ | participle | by the travellers | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | repel | to-infinitive | the insects | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus insect=Experiencer |
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 myrtle branch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 branch | det |
| 2 | myrtle | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 branch | compound |
| 3 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a green wet cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cloth | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloth | amod |
| 3 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloth | amod |
| 4 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a long branch of a sweet-smelling tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 branch | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 branch | amod |
| 3 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 smelling | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sweet | punct |
| 8 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tree | amod |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 branch | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
a bundle of dried green herbs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bundle | det |
| 2 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 herbs | case |
| 4 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 herbs | amod |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 herbs | amod |
| 6 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bundle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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