Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the…

Identify the object which, in the said passage, is caused to rise from the drawer by the rough doll and bears the name of the sleeping figure.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, say, cause, rise, name · To what, where: object, said passage, name, drawer, sleeping figure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 874 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the flowers dance at night while Sophy the doll gives up her bed» 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 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caused	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 passage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 passage	det
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 passage	amod
9	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caused	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 passage	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 caused	aux:pass
12	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 rise	mark
14	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 caused	xcomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 drawer	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 drawer	det
17	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rise	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 doll	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 doll	det
20	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 doll	amod
21	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rise	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bears	cc
23	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 doll	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 name	det
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rise	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 figure	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 figure	det
28	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 figure	amod
29	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 name	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	participle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	cause	present · passive			the said passage		tree rules
4	rise	to-infinitive		the name of the sleeping figure	the drawer	by the rough doll and bears	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from drawer=Initial_State by doll=Extent
5	name			the sleeping figure			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

the sleeping doll named Sophy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doll	det
2	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doll	amod
3	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 doll	acl
5	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle	the sleeping doll not said here	Sophy					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the wax doll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doll	det
2	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doll	compound
3	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the wooden doll that bore Sophy's name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doll	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doll	amod
3	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 bore	nsubj
5	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 doll	acl:relcl
6	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Sophy	case
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past	the wooden doll	Sophy's name					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	name		Sophy						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the doll Sophy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sophy	det
2	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Sophy	compound
3	Sophy	sophy	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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