Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

What was the principal commodity sold by the German clerks in Copenhagen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, sell · To what, where: principal commodity, Copenhagen

This is exam question 3 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	5 commodity	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 commodity	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 commodity	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 commodity	amod
5	commodity	commodity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 commodity	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 clerks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clerks	det
9	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clerks	amod
10	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sold	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Copenhagen	case
12	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 commodity	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal commodity					tree rules
2	sell	participle		the principal commodity not said here		Copenhagen		by the German clerks	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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

pepper and German beer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 beer	cc
3	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beer	amod
4	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pepper	conj

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

Option 2

spices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

pepper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

pepper and other spices from the Indies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 spices	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spices	amod
4	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pepper	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 Indies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Indies	det
7	Indies	Indy	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 pepper	nmod

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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