Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

What substance did Great Claus apply to the bottom of the measure, so as to catch coins?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: substance, Great · What happens: do, apply, catch · To what, where: coins

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 apply	nsubj
5	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Great	flat
6	apply	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apply	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 measure	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 measure	det
12	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bottom	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 catch	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 catch	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 catch	mark
16	to	to	PART	_	17 catch	mark
17	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 apply	advcl
18	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 catch	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	substance			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	apply	present	Great		to the bottom of the measure	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	catch	to-infinitive	Great not said here	coins		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=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

Gum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

Tar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Ink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ink	ink	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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