Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

Prior to her marriage, in what capacity was the narrator employed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prior capacity, her · What happens: be, employ, marry · To what, where: narrator

This is exam question 1 of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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	Prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 capacity	amod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 marriage	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 marriage	nmod:poss
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Prior	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Prior	conj
8	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 narrator	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 narrator	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrator	det
11	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 narrator	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 narrator	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Prior capacity	the narrator	tree rules
2	employ	participle		the narrator not said here	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	marry		her = she		nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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 kitchen helper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 helper	det
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helper	compound
3	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a farm labourer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 labourer	det
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 labourer	compound
3	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 maid	det
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a domestic servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	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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