Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his w…
What is the stated significance of the lions and hearts in the Danish arms?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stated significance · What happens: be, state
This is exam question 2 of lesson 848 «Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his wooden Holger and tells of the Danish arms, while Holger dreams on» 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 significance | det |
| 4 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 significance | amod |
| 5 | significance | significance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lions | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lions | det |
| 8 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 significance | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hearts | cc |
| 10 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lions | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 arms | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 arms | det |
| 13 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 arms | amod |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lions | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the stated significance of the lions in the Danish arms and hearts | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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
honor and wisdom both
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wisdom | cc |
| 3 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 honor | conj |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 1 honor | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
strength and gentleness respectively
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gentleness | cc |
| 3 | gentleness | gentleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 strength | conj |
| 4 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 1 strength | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the lions stand for strength and the hearts for gentleness and love of country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lions | det |
| 2 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 strength | case |
| 5 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hearts | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hearts | det |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 strength | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 gentleness | case |
| 10 | gentleness | gentleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 love | cc |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gentleness | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the lions | for strength and the hearts; for gentleness and love of country | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for strength=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | love | country | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
courage and pride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pride | cc |
| 3 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 courage | conj |
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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