Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

What object does the narrative identify as the final trace of Helga upon the spot where she stood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, narrative · What happens: do, identify, stand

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrative	det
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identify	nsubj
6	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 trace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trace	det
9	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trace	amod
10	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identify	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Helga	case
12	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 trace	nmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 spot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spot	det
15	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trace	nmod
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 stood	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spot	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	what object		tree rules
2	identify	present	the narrative	as the final trace of Helga upon the spot	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as trace=Attribute
3	stand	past	narrative		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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

a broken marble stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stone	amod
3	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stone	compound
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a faded lotus-flower and the priest's old ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
2	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flower	amod
3	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 lotus	punct
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ring	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 priest	det
8	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ring	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 priest	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ring	amod
11	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a faded lotus-flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
2	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flower	amod
3	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 lotus	punct
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a faded lotus-flower lying on the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
2	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flower	amod
3	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 lotus	punct
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 flower	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lie	gerund	a faded lotus flower not said here			the grass			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location

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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