Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

To what duration does the narrative attribute Helga's absence in the heavenly kingdom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duration, Helga · What happens: do, absent · To what, where: narrative attribute, heavenly kingdom

This is exam question 1 of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 attribute	det
6	narrative	narrative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 attribute	amod
7	attribute	attribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 absence	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Helga	case
10	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attribute	appos
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 kingdom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kingdom	det
13	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kingdom	amod
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	duration	the narrative attribute		the heavenly kingdom			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribute=Eventuality
2	absent		Helga						nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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

three hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

from the feast until the next dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feast	det
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	until	until	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dawn	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dawn	amod
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feast	nmod

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

Option 3

approximately three earthly minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
3	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

three minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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