Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…

What was the occupation of the gentleman whom the mistress proposed as a husband?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: occupation · What happens: be, propose, occupy · To what, where: mistress, gentleman

This is exam question 1 of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» 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 occupation	det
4	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 gentleman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gentleman	det
7	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occupation	nmod
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 mistress	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mistress	det
10	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gentleman	appos
11	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mistress	acl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 husband	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 husband	det
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 proposed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the occupation of the gentleman			tree rules
2	propose	participle		the mistress not said here	as a husband	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	occupy			the gentleman		nom occupation «act 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

a maker of fine leather gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 maker	det
2	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 gloves	case
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gloves	amod
5	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gloves	compound
6	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 maker	nmod

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

Option 2

tanner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tanner	tanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

glovemaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	glovemaker	glovemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

baker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	baker	baker	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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