Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is s…

What occupation did the artist pursue who aided the fugitive?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: occupation, artist · What happens: do, pursue, aid · To what, where: fugitive

This is exam question 4 of lesson 919 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is sold, melted, and cast into a statue of a poet» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 occupation	det
2	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 artist	det
5	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pursue	nsubj
6	pursue	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 aided	nsubj
8	aided	aid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pursue	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fugitive	det
10	fugitive	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 aided	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	what occupation		tree rules
2	pursue	present	the artist		tree rules
3	aid	past		the fugitive	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fugitive=Beneficiary

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

He taught music at the inn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 taught	nsubj
2	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taught	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 inn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inn	det
6	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	He	music		the inn			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent music=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He read each leaf aloud to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 leaf	det
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 read	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	He	each leaf	him = he			aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent leaf=Topic to he=Recipient

Option 3

He was a travelling painter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 painter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 painter	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 painter	det
4	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 painter	amod
5	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	He	a travelling painter					tree rules

Option 4

A painter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 painter	det
2	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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