Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…

Which of the twelve months was the first to be called for the passport inspection?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 first	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 months	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 months	det
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 months	nummod
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 first	obl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 first	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 first	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 called	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 called	aux:pass
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 first	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 inspection	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 inspection	det
14	passport	passport	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 inspection	compound
15	inspection	inspection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 first	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					month	first property	tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive · passive						for the passport inspection	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: for inspection=Recipient

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

Mr. January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 January	nmod:desc
2	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Mr. February

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 February	nmod:desc
2	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the first passenger on the passport list at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passenger	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 passenger	amod
3	passenger	passenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 list	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 list	det
6	passport	passport	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 list	compound
7	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passenger	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passenger	nmod

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

Option 4

the gentleman who came in the coach with the fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gentleman	det
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gentleman	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 coach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coach	det
7	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 fruit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fruit	det
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the gentleman			the coach		with the fruit	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in coach=Location

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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