Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his w…
On what occasion did the grandfather serve aboard the vessel Denmark?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: grandfather serve, occasion
This is exam question 3 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 occasion | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 occasion | nsubj |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 serve | det |
| 6 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 serve | compound |
| 7 | serve | serve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | aboard | aboard | ADP | _ | 10 vessel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vessel | det |
| 10 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 11 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 vessel | appos |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the grandfather serve | occasion | aboard the vessel | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serve=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the engagement of the second of April
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 engagement | det |
| 2 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 second | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 second | det |
| 5 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 engagement | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 April | case |
| 7 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 second | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | the second of April | nom engagement «act intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the siege of the fortress town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 siege | det |
| 2 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 5 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 town | compound |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 siege | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the sinking of the king's ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sinking | det |
| 2 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ship | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sinking | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | the king's ship | nom sinking «event intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 4
a storm at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 sea | case |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 storm | nmod |
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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