Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

By what means did the sparrows identify one another?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sparrows · What happens: mean, do, identify · To what, where: one

This is exam question 1 of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sparrows	det
6	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 identify	nsubj
7	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 identify	obj
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	fixed
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past			tree rules
3	identify	present	the sparrows	one	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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

By a shared song and a tail flick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 song	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
3	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 song	amod
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flick	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flick	det
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flick	compound
8	flick	flick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 song	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 song	det
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By a "peep" and three scrapes of the left foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 peep	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 peep	det
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 peep	punct
4	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 peep	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scrapes	cc
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 scrapes	nummod
8	scrapes	scrape	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 peep	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 foot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 foot	det
11	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 foot	amod
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scrapes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrape			the left foot					nom scrape «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

By a loud chirp and two hops forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 chirp	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chirp	det
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chirp	amod
4	chirp	chirp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hops	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hops	nummod
7	hops	hop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chirp	conj
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 hops	advmod

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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