Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished…

Subsequent to the dream, what did the pupil accomplish with regard to his lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dream, pupil · What happens: do, accomplish

This is exam question 2 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	Subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 dream	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dream	det
4	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Subsequent	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dream	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pupil	det
9	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accomplish	nsubj
10	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 did	parataxis
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 regard	case
12	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accomplish	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 lesson	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lesson	nmod:poss
15	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 regard	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Subsequent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the dream						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	accomplish	present	the pupil					with regard to pupil's lesson	vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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

He recited the whole lesson entirely correctly to his teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recited	nsubj
2	recited	recite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lesson	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lesson	amod
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recited	obj
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 recited	advmod
7	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	2 recited	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 teacher	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 teacher	nmod:poss
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recite	past	He	the whole lesson	his teacher			correctly, entirely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic to teacher=Recipient

Option 2

He recited it entirely correctly, word for word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recited	nsubj
2	recited	recite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recited	obj
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 recited	advmod
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	2 recited	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 word	punct
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recited	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 word	case
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recite	past	He	it				word for word obl; correctly, entirely property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He recited it entirely correctly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recited	nsubj
2	recited	recite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recited	obj
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 recited	advmod
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	2 recited	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recite	past	He	it				correctly, entirely property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

He wrote it down twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 wrote	compound:prt
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 wrote	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	past	He	it				twice property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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