Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished…

Concerning which subject did King Hroar instruct the boy to retain information?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King Hroar · What happens: concern, instruct, retain · To what, where: subject, boy, information · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 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	Concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Hroar	csubj
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 subject	det
3	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Concerning	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Hroar	aux
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hroar	compound
6	Hroar	Hroar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 instruct	nsubj
7	instruct	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 instruct	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 retain	mark
11	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 instruct	advcl
12	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retain	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	concern	gerund		which subject		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	instruct speech: other	present	King Hroar		the boy	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
3	retain	to-infinitive	King Hroar not said here	information		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 · ✓ the right answer

the names of the towns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 towns	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 towns	det
5	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 names	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			the towns					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the names of the kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 kings	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kings	det
5	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 names	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			the kings					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

the names of all the towns along the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 towns	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 towns	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 towns	det
6	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 names	nmod
7	along	along	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 towns	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			all towns along the road					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

the names of the towns and their kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 towns	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 towns	det
5	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 names	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kings	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kings	nmod:poss
8	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 towns	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			the towns and towns's kings					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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