Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…
Whose health was restored by the arrival of the two swans?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: arrival, two swans · What happens: restore, arrive · To what, where: health
This is exam question 4 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 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 health | nmod:poss |
| 2 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 restored | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 restored | aux:pass |
| 4 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 arrival | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 arrival | det |
| 7 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 restored | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 swans | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swans | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 swans | nummod |
| 11 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arrival | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 restored | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | past · passive | the arrival of the two swans | health | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | the two swans | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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
the old king of the Viking hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 6 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hall | compound |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the old lord of the Nile house and his wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lord | amod |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wife | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the old lord of the Nile house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lord | amod |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the old lord of the Nile house, who had been ill for years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lord | amod |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ill | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ill | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ill | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 ill | cop |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lord | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ill | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the old lord of the Nile house | year | ill property | tree rules |
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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