Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon sh…

In what manner did the young merchant proceed upon his journey?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young merchant, merchant · What happens: proceed, journey · To what, where: manner

This is exam question 4 of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proceed	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 proceed	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 merchant	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 merchant	amod
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proceed	nsubj
8	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 journey	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 journey	nmod:poss
11	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proceed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 proceed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	past · do-support	the young merchant			what manner		upon merchant's journey	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	journey		merchant						nom journey «act 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

Walking alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Walking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund						alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Riding quietly at the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Riding	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Riding	nmod

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

Option 3

Marching with the camels in silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 camels	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 camels	det
4	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Marching	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 silence	case
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	gerund				silence		with the camels	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Riding pensively with the caravan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	pensively	pensively	ADV	_	1 Riding	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 caravan	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 caravan	det
5	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund						with the caravan; pensively property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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