Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Bab…
Which of the following accurately states the duration of the shooting festival according to the text?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, state, accord · To what, where: duration
This is exam question 3 of lesson 856 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Babette is away and climbs the mountains after her» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 states | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 states | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 states | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 states | nsubj |
| 5 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 6 states | advmod |
| 6 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 duration | det |
| 8 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 states | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 festival | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 festival | det |
| 11 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 festival | compound |
| 12 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 duration | nmod |
| 13 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 text | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 according | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 text | det |
| 16 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 festival | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 states | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | the duration of the shooting festival accord the text | accurately property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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
a period of nine days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 period | det |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 period | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a period of eight days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 period | det |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 period | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a span of seven weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 span | det |
| 2 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 weeks | case |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 weeks | nummod |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 span | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a period of eight days during which the whole town gathered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 period | det |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 period | nmod |
| 6 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gathered | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 town | amod |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | nsubj |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 days | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the whole town | during eight days | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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