Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…
Which character in the play is described as having a laydown collar?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, have · To what, where: character, laydown collar
This is exam question 1 of lesson 915 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a silly pretend play, then the strange street of pepper clerks» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 character | det |
| 2 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 described | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 play | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 play | det |
| 5 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 character | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 described | aux:pass |
| 7 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 having | mark |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 described | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 collar | det |
| 11 | laydown | laydown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 collar | amod |
| 12 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 described | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | which character in the play | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | a laydown collar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient |
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 old Pipe-head's daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 head | amod |
| 3 | Pipe | Pipe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 head | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pipe | punct |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 head | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Pipe-head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 2 | Pipe | Pipe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 head | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pipe | punct |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the Waistcoat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Waistcoat | det |
| 2 | Waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Waistcoat's friend the tailor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Waistcoat | det |
| 2 | Waistcoat | Waistcoat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Waistcoat | case |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tailor | det |
| 6 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | appos |
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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