Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…
Identify the agent that uprooted the oak during the nocturnal tempest at Christmas.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, agent · What happens: identify, uproot · To what, where: agent, oak
This is exam question 2 of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 agent | det |
| 3 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 uprooted | nsubj |
| 5 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agent | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oak | det |
| 7 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uprooted | obj |
| 8 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 tempest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tempest | det |
| 10 | nocturnal | nocturnal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tempest | amod |
| 11 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uprooted | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Christmas | case |
| 13 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tempest | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the agent | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | uproot | past | the agent | the oak | during the nocturnal tempest at Christmas | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=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
A fierce gale sweeping in from the northern sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gale | det |
| 2 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gale | amod |
| 3 | gale | gale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 gale | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 sweeping | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 8 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweeping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep in | gerund | a fierce gale not said here | the northern sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sea=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A violent storm that howled through the wood all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 2 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storm | amod |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 howled | nsubj |
| 5 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 storm | acl:relcl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 howled | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 howled | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past | a violent storm | the wood | night | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location |
Option 3
A cruel frost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 frost | det |
| 2 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 frost | amod |
| 3 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A mighty storm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 2 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storm | amod |
| 3 | storm | storm | 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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