Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished…
Which object did the pupil place beneath his pillow to aid the retention of his lesson?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, aid, retain · To what, where: pupil place, retention, lesson
This is exam question 1 of lesson 885 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished towns and wakes up knowing his lesson» 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | compound |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 pillow | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 aid | mark |
| 11 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 retention | det |
| 13 | retention | retention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aid | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lesson | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lesson | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 retention | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the pupil place | beneath object's pillow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | aid | to-infinitive | which object not said here | the retention of object's lesson | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retention=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | retain | object's lesson | nom retention «act 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 · ← Mova's choice
the history book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 2 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 book | compound |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the spelling book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 2 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 book | compound |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the geography book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 2 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 book | compound |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the heavy geography book from his desk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 book | amod |
| 3 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 book | compound |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 desk | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 desk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 book | 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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