Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

Which of the following accurately identifies the individual who relates the narrative to the household in its own manner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: individual · What happens: follow, identify, relate · To what, where: individual, narrative, own manner

This is exam question 1 of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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	6 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 individual	det
8	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 relates	nsubj
10	relates	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 individual	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 narrative	det
12	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 relates	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 household	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 household	det
15	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 relates	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 manner	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 manner	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 manner	amod
19	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 relates	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the individual	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent individual=Theme
3	relate	present	the individual	the narrative	in household's own manner goal; to the household	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent narrative=Theme in manner=Goal

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

Stork-papa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 papa	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Stork	punct
3	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The stork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stork-papa, who narrates the story to his family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 papa	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Stork	punct
3	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 narrates	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 narrates	nsubj
6	narrates	narrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 papa	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 narrates	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 family	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 narrates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	narrate speech: other	present	Stork papa	the story	his family				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to family=Recipient

Option 4

The nightingale, who sings the story aloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nightingale	det
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sings	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sings	nsubj
5	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 nightingale	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sings	obj
8	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	5 sings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the nightingale	the story				aloud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location story=Theme

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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