Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon sh…

What did the chimney sweep experience on his first ascent from the chimney?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: sweep experience, first ascent

This is exam question 4 of lesson 907 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 118: the Moon shows a guilty girl, a boy at a spinning wheel, a mother's belief, and a chimney sweep's first sunrise» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 experience	det
4	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sweep	compound
5	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 experience	compound
6	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 ascent	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ascent	nmod:poss
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 ascent	amod
10	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 chimney	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chimney	det
13	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the sweep experience		his first ascent		from the chimney	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Eventuality

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 fresh air and a view over the whole city towards the green wood and the distant hills beyond

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 air	det
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 view	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 view	det
6	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 air	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 city	amod
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 view	nmod
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wood	amod
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 city	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hills	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hills	det
17	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hills	amod
18	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 air	conj
19	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	18 hills	advmod

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

Option 2

the fresh air and a long view across the rooftops and towers of the city

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 air	det
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 view	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 view	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 view	amod
7	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 air	conj
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 rooftops	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rooftops	det
10	rooftops	rooftop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 view	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 towers	cc
12	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rooftops	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 city	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 towers	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the fresh air and a view over the whole city towards the green wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 air	det
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 view	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 view	det
6	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 air	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 city	amod
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 view	nmod
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wood	amod
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 city	nmod

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

Option 4

a cold wind and a sooty view over the factories and smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wind	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 view	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 view	det
6	sooty	sooty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 view	amod
7	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wind	conj
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 factories	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 factories	det
10	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wind	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 smoke	cc
12	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 factories	conj

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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