Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his w…

By what means does the grandfather suppose Holger Danske reached the Danish fleet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandfather, Holger · What happens: mean, suppose, reach · To what, where: Danish fleet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 suppose	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 suppose	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grandfather	det
6	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 suppose	nsubj
7	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Holger	Holger	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 reached	nsubj
9	Danske	Danske	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Holger	flat
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 suppose	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fleet	det
12	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fleet	amod
13	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 suppose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	suppose	present · do-support	the grandfather		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	reach	past	Holger	the Danish fleet	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme

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

by swimming from Kronenburg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swimming	mark
2	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Kronenburg	case
4	Kronenburg	Kronenburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 swimming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund				Kronenburg			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from kronenburg=Trajectory

Option 2

by walking over the frozen sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 sound	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sound	det
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sound	amod
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				the frozen sound			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sound=Trajectory
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

by sailing from the harbor town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sailing	mark
2	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
5	harbor	harbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 town	compound
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund				the harbor town			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from town=Trajectory

Option 4

by swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swimming	mark
2	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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