Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

Which object did the young boy present to the elderly gentleman as a token of kindness?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: young boy present

This is exam question 1 of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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 object	det
2	object	object	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	7 present	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 present	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 present	compound
7	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 gentleman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gentleman	det
10	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gentleman	amod
11	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 token	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 token	det
14	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 kindness	case
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 token	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the young boy present				to the elderly gentleman; as a token of kindness	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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

A paper boat for sailing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boat	det
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boat	compound
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 sailing	case
5	sailing	sailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boat	nmod

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

Option 2

A small wooden horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A tin soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
2	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soldier	compound
3	soldier	soldier	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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