Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…
Which being accompanied Helga from the heavenly sphere back towards her earthly threshold?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accompany · To what, where: Helga, heavenly sphere
This is exam question 2 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 accompanied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 3 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sphere | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sphere | det |
| 7 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sphere | amod |
| 8 | sphere | sphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 accompanied | advmod |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 threshold | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 threshold | nmod:poss |
| 12 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 threshold | amod |
| 13 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 accompanied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | gerund · passive | Helga | the heavenly sphere | towards Helga's earthly threshold | tree rules |
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 stork-mamma and her sleepy young ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mamma | det |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mamma | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 stork | punct |
| 4 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ones | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ones | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mamma | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the young stork-papa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 papa | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 papa | amod |
| 3 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 papa | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 stork | punct |
| 5 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the deceased Christian priest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 priest | det |
| 2 | deceased | decease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 priest | amod |
| 3 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 priest | amod |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decease | participle | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
the deceased Christian priest who had died
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 priest | det |
| 2 | deceased | decease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 priest | amod |
| 3 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 priest | amod |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 died | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 died | aux |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 priest | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decease | participle | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | the deceased Christian priest | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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