Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a…
Which material does the field-mouse prescribe for the garments in preparation for the marriage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: material · What happens: prescribe · To what, where: preparation
This is exam question 3 of lesson 883 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a frozen swallow while the field-mouse plans her wedding to the mole» 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 material | det |
| 2 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prescribe | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 prescribe | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mouse | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mouse | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 field | punct |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prescribe | nsubj |
| 8 | prescribe | prescribe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 garments | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garments | det |
| 11 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prescribe | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 preparation | case |
| 13 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prescribe | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 marriage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 marriage | det |
| 16 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prescribe | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 prescribe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prescribe | present · do-support | which material | preparation | for the garments; for the marriage | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Woollen and linen fabrics
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woollen | woollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fabrics | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 linen | cc |
| 3 | linen | linen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Woollen | conj |
| 4 | fabrics | fabric | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Both woollen and linen fabrics woven by spiders
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 fabrics | det |
| 2 | woollen | woollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fabrics | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 linen | cc |
| 4 | linen | linen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 woollen | conj |
| 5 | fabrics | fabric | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fabrics | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 spiders | case |
| 8 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 woven | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | participle | both woollen fabrics not said here | by spiders | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by spider=Trajectory |
Option 3
Cotton and leather goods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 goods | cc |
| 3 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goods | compound |
| 4 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Cotton | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Woollen and linen fabrics dyed black
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woollen | woollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fabrics | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 linen | cc |
| 3 | linen | linen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Woollen | conj |
| 4 | fabrics | fabric | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | dyed | dye | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fabrics | acl |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dyed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dye | participle | Woollen fabrics not said here | black property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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