Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the…
Determine the place in which the flowers did dance with the doll Sophy, as is set forth in the narrative of this section.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, flowers · What happens: determine, dance, set · To what, where: place, narrative
This is exam question 4 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 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 dance | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flowers | det |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dance | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dance | aux |
| 9 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 place | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Sophy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sophy | det |
| 12 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Sophy | compound |
| 13 | Sophy | sophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dance | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 set | mark |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | aux:pass |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dance | conj |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 set | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 narrative | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 narrative | det |
| 21 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 section | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 section | det |
| 24 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 narrative | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dance | past · do-support | the flowers | the place | with the doll Sophy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 3 | set | present · passive | the flowers not said here | the narrative of this section | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in narrative=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 · ← Mova's choice
on the floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
near the door of the room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | near | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
in the hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 hall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hall | det |
| 3 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
in the middle of the room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
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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