Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

Which substance did the wife conceal in the oven, as recorded in the text?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: substance · What happens: conceal, record · To what, where: oven, text

This is exam question 2 of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 substance	det
2	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conceal	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 conceal	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conceal	nsubj
6	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 oven	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 oven	det
9	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conceal	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 recorded	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 recorded	mark
12	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 conceal	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 text	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 text	det
15	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recorded	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past · do-support	which substance			the oven			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in oven=Location
2	record	participle	which substance not said here			the text			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=Destination

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

Roast meat, fish, pies and the Sunday pudding for guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roast	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fish	punct
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meat	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pies	punct
6	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meat	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pudding	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pudding	det
9	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pudding	compound
10	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meat	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 guests	case
12	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Roast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	imperative	you not said here	meat and fish and pies and the Sunday pudding				for guests	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meat=Patient for guest=Beneficiary

Option 2

Apples, pears and plums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pears	punct
3	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Apples	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 plums	cc
5	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Apples	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Roast meat, fish and pies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roast	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fish	punct
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meat	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pies	cc
6	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	imperative	you not said here	meat and fish and pies					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

Option 4

Roast meat, fish, pies and every sweet cake from the pantry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roast	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fish	punct
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meat	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pies	punct
6	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meat	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cake	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 cake	det
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cake	amod
10	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meat	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 pantry	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pantry	det
13	pantry	pantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	imperative	you not said here	meat and fish and pies and every sweet cake		the pantry			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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