Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…

Which character is described as having spoken with the greatest eloquence in the burdock forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: describe, speak · To what, where: character · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 spoken	mark
6	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 spoken	aux
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 described	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 eloquence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eloquence	det
10	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 eloquence	amod
11	eloquence	eloquence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoken	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
14	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 forest	compound
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eloquence	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which character					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	speak speech: other	gerund · perfect						with the greatest eloquence in the burdock forest	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with eloquence=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The mother-snail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snail	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snail	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
4	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The wise old mother-snail who lived under the burdock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snail	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snail	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snail	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snail	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
6	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 snail	acl:relcl
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 burdock	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 burdock	det
11	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the wise old mother snail			the burdock			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under burdock=Location

Option 3

The grey mother-snail who spoke from the burdock leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snail	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snail	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snail	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 spoke	nsubj
7	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snail	acl:relcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaves	det
10	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	compound
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the grey mother snail			the burdock leaves			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The old hedgehog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hedgehog	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hedgehog	amod
3	hedgehog	hedgehog	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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