Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

Which passenger is attired in bear-skin and fur boots?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: attire · To what, where: passenger, bear skin

This is exam question 2 of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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 passenger	det
2	passenger	passenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attired	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 attired	aux:pass
4	attired	attire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 skin	case
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bear	punct
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attired	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 boots	cc
10	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boots	compound
11	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 skin	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 attired	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attire	present · passive		which passenger		bear skin and fur boots			vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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

February

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the passenger in the bear-skin coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 passenger	det
2	passenger	passenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 coat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coat	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coat	compound
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passenger	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

December

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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