Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

What was the name of the street in which the German clerks traded?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, trade · To what, where: name, German clerks, street

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 name	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 traded	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clerks	det
11	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clerks	amod
12	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 traded	nsubj:pass
13	traded	trade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 street	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the name				of the street	tree rules
2	trade	participle · passive		the German clerks		the street			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Bremen road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 road	compound
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Hauschen, the little house street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hauschen	Hauschen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 street	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 street	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 street	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 street	compound
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hauschen	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hysken street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hysken	Hysken	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 street	compound
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the street called Hysken in Copenhagen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 street	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 street	acl
4	Hysken	Hysken	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Copenhagen	case
6	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hysken	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the street not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP 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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