Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…

On what object did the old lord recline when the swans arrived?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lord, swans · What happens: recline, arrive

This is exam question 1 of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	4 did	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 recline	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lord	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lord	amod
7	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recline	nsubj
8	recline	recline	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 arrived	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swans	det
11	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 arrived	nsubj
12	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 recline	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 recline	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recline	past · do-support	the old lord						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	past	the swans						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

a warm bed of woven straw and skins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bed	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bed	amod
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 straw	case
5	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 straw	amod
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bed	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 skins	cc
8	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 straw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

downy cushions beneath a leopard skin in the hall by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	downy	downy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cushions	amod
2	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 skin	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skin	det
5	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	compound
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cushions	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	nmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hall	nmod

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

Option 3

downy cushions beneath a leopard skin and a silk cover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	downy	downy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cushions	amod
2	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 skin	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skin	det
5	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	compound
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cushions	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cover	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cover	det
9	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cover	compound
10	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

downy cushions beneath a leopard skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	downy	downy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cushions	amod
2	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 skin	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skin	det
5	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	compound
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cushions	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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