Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

Upon whose grave did the rose-tree bloom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: tree bloom

This is exam question 2 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 grave	case
2	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 grave	nmod:poss
3	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bloom	det
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 rose	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bloom	compound
9	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the tree bloom				upon grave	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloom=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 grave of Thorwaldsen in the courtyard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Thorwaldsen	case
4	Thorwaldsen	Thorwaldsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grave	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 courtyard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 courtyard	det
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grave	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Thorwaldsen's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thorwaldsen	Thorwaldsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Thorwaldsen	case

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

Option 3

The sculptor's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sculptor	det
2	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sculptor	case

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

Option 4

The architect's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 architect	det
2	architect	architect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 architect	case

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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